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is the first correspondence field experiment investigating discrimination against this minority group in Portugal, adding … married, stable and professional. The main finding is that male same-sex couples face significant discrimination: The …. The effect is even more negative in parishes where the population is older, and discrimination increases in magnitude over …
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Although explicit discrimination in access to social programs is typically prohibited, more subtle forms of … discrimination prior to the formal application process may still exist. Unveiling this phenomenon, we provide the first causal … evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to > 18, 000 early child …
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The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents has been a subject of great interest for both policy makers and researchers. Despite this interest, empirical evidence of causal neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes is...
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We present a field experiment conducted in order to explore the existence of ethnic discrimination in contact with … sense that the answer from the municipality started with a personal salutation. We conclude that ethnic discrimination is … prevalent in public sector contacts and that this discrimination has implications for the integration of immigrants and their …
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We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and a lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … selection decisions. We model how knowledge of ethnicity influences allocation of attention to available information about an … effect is opposite when most applicants are accepted. We test for such “attention discrimination” in two field experiments …
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This paper estimates the effects of group identity on discrimination in the marketplace. We conducted an audit study in … sellers in 922 market interactions. To identify discrimination patterns and the rationale behind them, we manipulated the …) towards buyers wearing the Brazil t-shirt when Brazil had won a match in the very recent past, and discrimination (i.e. higher …
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We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy …
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Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...
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consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … from caste discrimination. Given the increasing share of professionals from a lower caste background, our results suggest …
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Transgender individuals face high levels of discrimination including in healthcare. Lack of adequate legal protections … practices due to the costs of discrimination. We conduct an audit study with male and transgender standardized patients visiting … private health care clinics in Pakistan and find evidence of discrimination in non-obvious domains. Physicians differentiate …
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