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In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared donation and contribution framings. We found that the use of the word 'donation' generated higher revenue than the use of 'contribution'. While the individuals receiving the...
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As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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emotion or reason, while simultaneously measuring individual decision-making traits. Our results show that decision …We test the effects of dual processing differences in both individual traits and decision states on risk taking. In an … taking becomes weaker in the emotion-inducing state and in the loss domain. In contrast, the association between a …
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large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring processes, where candidates are quasi-randomly assigned to evaluators …' votes of up to 40% and distorting final admission and hiring decisions. Our findings are in line with a contrast effect …
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. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be …. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local markets over recruitment of competent candidates and local organizers … authoritarian and persistently "bad" leadership. Our model can be applied to other labor recruitment settings. …
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discrimination. To enrich this taxonomy, we design a hiring experiment that rules out both of these sources of discrimination along … clearly they reveal the decision-maker's gender bias. Our analysis highlights the central role played by contextual features …
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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...
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. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief … their hiring choices are highly revealing of their gender-biased beliefs. Crucially, we also identify implicit …
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1 and 2. They choose whether the hiring decision between themselves and another worker is made either by a participant … delegate their hiring decisions to the algorithm. In the baseline treatments, we observe that workers choose the manager more … often than the algorithm, and managers also prefer to make the hiring decisions themselves rather than delegate them to the …
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