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gender stereotypes in recruiters’ minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender … hireability and 21 statements related to specific gender stereotypes. Moreover, we experimentally manipulate both the gender … prototypical, are perceived in less stereotypical terms than white women, while some stereotypes are more outspoken when female …
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We study whether and why parents have gender-stereotyped beliefs when they assess their child's skills. Exploiting systematic differences in parental beliefs about a child's skills and blindly graded standardized test scores, we find that parents overestimate boys' skills more so than girls' in...
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This paper reports results from a survey experiment comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by male versus female experts. Members of the public were asked for their opinions on topical issues and shown the opinion of either a male or a female economist, all professors at leading...
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Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al., 1998) designed to measure implicit attitudes and productivity stereotypes …
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...
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China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative personality traits are often attributed to people from specific areas. People from Henan, in...
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labor market, such as gender stereotypes and gender identity. This paper examines gender stereotypes and self … stereotypes do not differ from their male peers' and have significantly more pronounced masculine stereotypes than female managers … weaker beliefs in their masculine skills, whereas the opposite is observed for male managers. Gender stereotypes and self-stereotypes …
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Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated against. Therefore, we have conducted an online scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically...
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reduced the prevalence of stereotypes associated with jobs in science and gender differences in abilities, but it made the …
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sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport …, we document that states with more gender-equal norms are also states where boys and girls tend to break stereotypes when …
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