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Board Diversity and Shareholder Voting
Social Science Research Network, 2023The lack of board diversity across gender and race has been one of the most controversial topics in corporate board governance in recent years. Given the central role that shareholders have in approving director appointments, we investigate whether ...
Ian D. Gow, D. Larcker, Edward M. Watts
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Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023We sent fictitious applications to firms advertising job openings. We find that revealing a disability decreases callback rates by 25 percentage points. This result is not explained by accessibility constraints or lower productivity due to disability. We
Charles Bellemare +3 more
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Why isn’t my professor Aboriginal?
Australian Journal of Management, 2023This article focuses on the lived experience of a Karajarri Yawuru, First Peoples Doctoral candidate and his interactions with the Academy. This article draws on three vignettes and highlights first, racism that questions First Peoples’ academic ...
Mark Jones, P. Stanton, M. Rose
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An Information Theory of Efficient Differential Treatment
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023When are differential treatment policies—such as preferential treatment, affirmative action, and gender equity policies—justified by efficiency concerns?
Emil Temnyalov
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Equilibrium Screening and Categorical Inequality
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023We analyze equilibrium outcomes under costly screening of candidates from distinct categories. Candidates choose how much effort to invest in skill acquisition, and the screener decides how carefully to screen each candidate.
M. Fosgerau +2 more
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Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022In settings where social norms promote gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. These integration costs may hinder women's employment.
Conrad Miller, J. Peck, Mehmet Seflek
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Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census
American Economic Review: InsightsWe provide the first evidence from a large population census on earnings disparities experienced by nonbinary people—individuals who do not exclusively identify as men or women—and transgender people—individuals whose gender differs from their sex ...
Christopher S. Carpenter +3 more
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“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
The American Economic ReviewWe show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a large retail chain, we find that women receive substantially lower potential ratings ...
Alan Benson, Danielle Li, Kelly Shue
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Peer pressure and discrimination: evidence from international cricket
Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2023We study how peers affect in-group bias. Exploiting several umpiring reforms in international cricket matches—where two umpires make independent decisions in each other’s presence—we show that home-team umpires are less biased when working with a ...
A. Nilesh Fernando +1 more
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A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason
Journal of Economic LiteratureThis essay provides a streamlined presentation of stratification economics (SE) in three pillars and comments on Patrick L. Mason’s (2023) book The Economics of Structural Racism: Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets.
Stephan Lefebvre
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