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Are the Religiously Observant Discriminated Against in the Rental Housing Market? Experimental Evidence from Israel

Sansani, Shahar - 2017

In this paper, I test for discrimination against the religiously observant in the Israeli rental housing market. I perform a correspondence study where half of the requests have a religious signal (‘basad’ written at the top of the request), while the other half do not. Because the requests...

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Culture and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China

Zhang, Y. Jane - 2013

Radical communist reforms propelled traditionally secluded Han Chinese women into the labor force but exempted ethnic minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no...

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Employment Discrimination in Georgia: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pignatti, Norberto; Skhirtladze, Sophiko - 2017

We provide experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and apply for jobs as advertised in help-wanted web sites in Georgia. We find that gender has no effect on the...

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Lying in Two Dimensions and Moral Spillovers

Geraldes, Diogo; Heinicke, Franziska; Rosenkranz, Stephanie - 2019

The expanding literature on lying has exclusively considered lying behavior within a one-dimensional context. While this has been an important first step, many real-world contexts involve the possibility of simultaneously lying in more than one dimension (e.g., reporting one’s income and...

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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?

Naqvi, Nadeem - 2012

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...

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Collective Reputation and the Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination

Kim, Young-Chul; Loury, Glenn - 2012

Economists have developed theoretical models identifying self-fulfilling expectations as an important source of statistical discrimination in labor markets (Arrow, 1973). The static models dominating the literature of statistical discrimination, however, may leave the false impression that a bad...

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Credit market competition, collateral and firm's finance

Jiménez Zambrano, Gabriel; Salas Fumás, Vicente; …

This paper investigates the relationship between credit market competition and the availability of bank credit for …

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The Sequential Auction Problem on eBay: An Empirical Analysis and a Solution

Juda, Adam I.; Parkes, David C. - 2006

Bidders on eBay have no dominant bidding strategy when faced with multiple auctions each offering an item of interest …. As seen through an analysis of 1,956 auctions on eBay for a Dell E193FP LCD monitor, some bidders win auctions at prices …-based extension to eBay's proxy-bidding system that resolves this strategic issue for buyers in commoditized markets. An empirical …

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Finding influential ebay buyers for viral marketing - a conceptual model of BuyerRank

Lam, Hon; Wu, Chen - 2009

important form of UGC, the online auction site eBay has enjoyed tremendous growth rates since its inception. Many social … networks emerge across different communities on eBay. The notion of viral marketing has been proposed in both literature and …/purchase behaviour on eBay. The paper also provides a detailed state-of-the-art review of recent work on SNA and viral marketing in the …

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Optimal pricing strategies for online auction entrepreneurs

Knox, Ian; Lynch, David - 2007

market conditions was measured. 1,000 books were offered for sale on eBay. To test the study?s hypotheses, a one way ANOVA …

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