Disparities by race, gender, and other protected characteristics have been widely
documented in many important settings—such as employment, housing, criminal justice …

This chapter surveys the literature of the past 20 years on group identity and intergroup bias
which serve as important underpinnings for labor market discrimination. Main economic …

We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000
school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance …

This paper reviews work that tests (1) how formal and informal institutions, and especially
their interaction, affect participation in the shadow economy in transition countries; and (2) …

We study inaccurate beliefs as a source of discrimination. Economists typically characterize
discrimination as stemming from a taste-based (preference) or accurate statistical (belief …

Gender: Psychological Perspectives synthesizes the latest research on gender to help
students think critically about the differences between research findings and stereotypes …

The theory of statistical discrimination is a dominant social scientific framework for
understanding discrimination in labor markets. To date, the literature has treated this theory …

Purpose While women perform as well as their male counterparts at work, women are
drastically underrepresented in the onboarding process to senior leadership. The link …

We investigate how the gender gap in confidence affects the views that evaluators (eg,
employers) hold about men and women. We find the confidence gap is contagious, causing …

Labor market outcomes depend, in part, upon an individual's willingness to put him-or
herself forward for different opportunities. We use a series of experiments to explore gender …