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While observational evidence suggests that people behave more prosocially towards members of their own ethnic group, many laboratory studies fail to find this effect. One possible explanation is that coethnic preference only emerges during times of stress. To test this hypothesis, we...
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What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...
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partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language … similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …
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Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated experts like community organizers and police...
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We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...
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This paper studies how rewards based on class rank affect student effort and performance using a game-theoretic classroom competition model and data from the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees in the US. The paper finds that variation in the presence of strong or weak students changes the...
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We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general, that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and...
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distort incentives to mask across gender. Consistent with the framework, a survey reveals that students anticipate that female … sizable fraction of the gender gap in masking …
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We assess the role of information gaps in understanding gender differences in negotiation behavior by conducting a …. Prior to starting their job search, treated students were provided with objective information about the gender gap in … information. Further, we find some evidence that gender-specific treatment spillovers likely contribute to the smaller average …
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A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population … identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender …. We find that these "gender minority gaps" are robust, are as large as--or larger than--gender gaps between men and women …
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