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Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Barron, Kai; Harmgart, Heike; Huck, Steffen; Schneider, … - 2020

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental …

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Gender differences in financial advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes - 2021

We show that financial advisors recommend more costly products to female clients, based on minutes from about 27,000 real-world advisory meetings and client portfolio data. Funds recom-mended to women have higher expense ratios controlling for risk, and women less often receive rebates on...

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The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization

Henkel, Luca; Sprengholz, Philipp; Korn, Lars; Betsch, … - 2022

Public discord between those vaccinated and those unvaccinated for COVID-19 has intensified globally. Theories of intergroup relations propose that identifying with one's social group plays a key role in the perceptions and behaviors that fuel intergroup conflict. We test whether identification...

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A note on motivated cognition and discriminatory beliefs

Stötzer, Lasse; Zimmermann, Florian - 2022

away money from the group. Our results speak to a long-standing debate on the causes of racism and discrimination and …

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Murphy's law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023

Using data on 100 years of 19th century criminal trials at London's Old Bailey, this paper offers clear evidence of disparate treatment of Irish-named defendants and victims by English juries. We measure surname Irishness and Englishness using place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named...

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