The role of shortlisting in shifting gender beliefs on performance: experimental evidence
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Keywords
inaccurate statistical discrimination; belief updating; gender; shortlisting; chess;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- J78 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Public Policy (including comparable worth)
- M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-11-27 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GEN-2023-11-27 (Gender)
- NEP-HRM-2023-11-27 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2023-11-27 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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