Bias and Discrimination: What Do We Know?

Marina Della Giusta () and Steven Bosworth

No 13983, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting evidence (where it exists) of their effectiveness. The second part of the paper presents results of an experiment in revealing unconscious bias.

Keywords: discrimination; gender; unconscoius bias; licensing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D9 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2020-12
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