Members of certain minority groups are disadvantaged in different areas of society, such as the labor and housing market and the healthcare system. This is referred to as discrimination if people are disadvantaged solely based on their group membership (e.g., ethnic background or religious...

Members of certain minority groups are disadvantaged in different areas of society, such as the labor and housing market and the healthcare system. This is referred to as discrimination if people are disadvantaged solely based on their group membership (e.g., ethnic background or religious...

This paper examines the relationship between labor market power and employer discrimination, providing new causal evidence on when and where discriminatory outcomes arise. We leverage mass layoffs and firm closures as a source of exogenous job search and combine this with an exact matching...

In this study, we contribute to the literature about the effects of improving access to citizenship on integration outcomes. Hereby, we exploit exogenous variation from two citizenship reforms in Germany to estimate the effects of residency requirements on perceived discrimination, which is...

Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational setting, where it can shape students' confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative...

Have the recent changes in reproductive rights changed women's perceptions of discrimination and fair treatment relative to men's perceptions? To address this question, we collected online survey data (N=1,374) during spring 2023 using a randomized design that provided information about the...

This study examines racial and ethnic disparities in mortgage-lending outcomes across different lender types-large banks, fintech lenders, non-bank lenders, small banks, and credit unions-using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data from 2018 to 2023. By analyzing approval rates, rate spreads,...

This paper presents the first rigorous evaluation of school-based interventions aimed at reducing LGBTphobia. We focus on a classroom intervention that addresses the issue of LGBT harassment through perspective-taking and narrative exchange. Using a field experiment in France with more than...

Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational settings, where it can shape students’ confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative...

Hungary's sizeable Roma minority is hit by massive prejudice. Using 2011 Census data and supplementary sources, we study how ethnic bias translates to employment discrimination in local labor markets. The male ethnic employment gap, adjusted for a rich battery of controls, was 20-40 percent...

Wie lassen sich Entgeltunterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern reduzieren und Entgeltgleichheit herstellen? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, werden vier Einflussfaktoren der Entgeltungleichheit untersucht: Entgeltdiskriminierung, die horizontale und vertikale Segregation sowie die Unausgewogenheit...

Das Statistische Bundesamt hat seit dem Jahr 2023 im Mikrozensus das Konzept der Einwanderungsgeschichte eingeführt und setzt es nun auch auf der Ebene von Haushalten und Lebensformen um. Der Beitrag stellt zunächst Strukturmerkmale von Haushalten und Lebensformen mit und ohne...

We analyze whether teachers discriminate against ethnic minority students in terms of grading. Using comprehensive data on students in German primary and secondary schools, we compare students’ scores in standardized, anonymously graded achievement tests with non-anonymous teacher ratings...

Wie gestaltet sich der soziale Wandel mit Blick auf Chancengerechtigkeit in Wissenschaftskarrieren? Wie kann dem Gender Bias hier strukturell und nachhaltig entgegengewirkt werden? Der Sammelband verfolgt einen doppelten Fokus auf diesen Wandel hin zu einer Steigerung der Chancengerechtigkeit in...

Employers sometimes use personality tests in hiring or specifically look for candidates with certain personality traits such as being social, outgoing, active, and extraverted. Therefore, they hire based on personality, specifically extraversion in part at least. The question arises whether this...

This report addresses an evolving dimension of EU anti-discrimination law: the concepts of 'discrimination by association' and 'discrimination by assumption'.1 The EU anti-discrimination directives prohibit discrimination on a finite set of grounds: age, disability, religion or belief, sexual...

We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the U.S. using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ fictitious LinkedIn profiles. In the first stage, we vary race via AI-generated images only and find that Black profiles’ connection requests are 13 percent...

Brock and De Haas (2023) study the effect of randomising applicant gender in small business loan applications that are reviewed by loan officers at a Turkish bank in a lab-in-the-field experiment based on real-life applications. The main results are: first, that loan approval rates are not...

This study experimentally investigates the role of politics in hiring decisions. Participants acted as employers, determining the highest wage to offer candidates based only on their demographic characteristics, education, and partisanship. We find that both Democratic and Republican...

We examine how exogenous changes in exposure to air pollution over the past two decades have altered the disparities in home values between Black and White homeowners. We find that air quality capitalization rates are significantly lower for Black homeowners. In fact, they are so much lower...