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This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions … more strongly to decreased monitoring, but no significant gender difference in the extent to which workers are influenced …
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Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants are, in fact, discriminated against in the hiring process. However, whether overweight job...
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Previous research suggests that student evaluations of teacher performance are biased against women. We test this hypothesis on economics students in a randomized, double-blind experiment, set up in a natural educational setting. During the Covid-19 pandemic, teaching assistants moved online and...
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competition. Thus, patterns in non-STEM fields conform to the usual claims of gender differences. However, among those in STEM … fields, we find no statistical gender differences. Results hold under a series of alternative specifications, controls, and … heterogeneity among men appears to be at least as important as population-wide gender differences …
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involving 623 middle managers and 8,951 subordinate employees of a large technology firm. We first document a gender gap not … only in salary levels but also in salary increases. Our treatments provide for a gender-blind reallocation of the salary … managers discretion in allocating the budget, can completely eliminate the gender gap in salary increases. The treatments also …
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disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … found only against women or only against men. The results thus indicate that disability and gender interact and shape …
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