changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment program for social workers to analyse barriers to … messages to potential applicants to exogenously vary two key drivers of selection: perceived gender shares and expectations of … returns to ability. I find that perceived gender shares do not affect men's applications, while increasing expected returns to …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …

gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … discrimination against women on average, but the gender effect is heterogeneous across occupations and firms. Women have a higher …In most countries, there are systematic age and gender differences in labor market outcomes. Older workers and women …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …

Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with …

Discrimination---differential treatment by group identity---is widely studied in economics. Its source is often … that in many situations, individuals may have inaccurate beliefs about the relevant characteristics of different groups …. This possibility creates an identification problem when isolating the source of discrimination. When not accounted for, we …

sources of discrimination—varying the amount of information presented to evaluators and eliciting evaluators' beliefs. We …Discrimination—differential treatment by group identity—is widely studied in economics. Its source is often categorized … in many situations, individuals may have inaccurate beliefs about the relevant characteristics of different groups. This …