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Identifying and overcoming gender barriers in tech : a field experiment on inaccurate statistical discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
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Physical disability and labor market discrimination : evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Goussé, Marion; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2018
We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822723
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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444043
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417670
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064423
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Informed choices : gender gaps in career advice
Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021
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 career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428940
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Why is workplace sexual harassment underreported? : the value of outside options amid the threat of retaliation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Knepper, Matthew - 2021
Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence through the threat of a retaliatory firing, and test this theory by estimating whether external shocks that reduce the value of a worker’s outside options exacerbate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625851
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Does artificial intelligence help or hurt gender diversity? : evidence from two field experiments on recruitment in tech
Avery, Mallory; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2024
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI recruitment tools can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496439
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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination : experimental evidence from basic information treatments
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022
economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797735
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Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination : a hiring experiment
Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2022
Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists … have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical … discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules …
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