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turn induce taste-based discrimination. Religiosity may also relate to general prejudice. We test these hypotheses across … identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further …
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Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …
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This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from …
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discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or … be the object of discrimination. A theoretical model is constructed that predicts that the choice to identify interacts … intensifies the emotional response to the object of discrimination. This paper builds on this insight based on the understanding …
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Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...
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We investigate the extent and underlying mechanisms of how race beliefs associated with applicants' names affect hiring decisions. Using nationally representative data, we find widespread beliefs that people with names perceived to be Black possess lower levels of education, productivity and...
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prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to … facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status … have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them …
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matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria …
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Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration and institutionalized discrimination against Chinese in U ….S. society. This study examines the impact of institutional discrimination on the assimilation of Chinese by exploiting the … passage of the Act and the state-level variation in the intensity of discrimination, measured by the voting outcomes of the …
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