Updating, self-confidence, and discrimination

Konstanze Albrecht, Emma von Essen (), Juliane Parys and Nora Szech

European Economic Review, 2013, vol. 60, issue C, 144-169

Abstract: In this laboratory experiment, we show that people incorporate irrelevant group information when evaluating others. Individuals from groups that perform badly on average receive low evaluations, even when it is known that the individuals themselves perform well. This group-bias occurs both in a gendered setup, where women form the worse performing group, and in a non-gendered setup.

Keywords: Updating; Conservatism; Gender; Discrimination; Self-confidence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D81 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.02.002

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