Brown, Alasdair; Yang, Fuyu - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (2015) C, pp. 106-118
Women are under-represented in many top jobs. We investigate whether biased beliefs about female ability – a form of ‘mistake-based discrimination’ – are partially responsible for this under-representation. We use more than 10 years of data on the performance of female jockeys in U.K....