This study investigates whether employers in an online hiring experiment exhibit discrimination based on workers' accents that indicate English is not their primary language. To assess accent bias, we implement a randomized treatment design in which participants acting as employers are assigned...

This study investigates whether employers in an online hiring experiment exhibit discrimination based on workers' accents that indicate English is not their primary language. To assess accent bias, we implement a randomized treatment design in which participants acting as employers are assigned...

Using a laboratory experiment, we study the evolution of economic networks in the context of fragmented social identity. We create societies in which members can initiate and delete links to others, and then earn payoffs from a public goods game played within their network. We manipulate whether...

Effort is crucial for academic performance and varies by gender. However, it is not clear at what age nor under what circumstances gender differences in effort arise. Using behavioral measures of executive function from 799 fifth-grade students, we find no gender differences in cognitive effort...