Replication data for: Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Vojtěch Bartoš; Michal Bauer; Julie Chytilová; Filip Matějka

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Project Citation:

Bartoš, Vojtech, Bauer, Michal, Chytilová, Julie, and Matejka, Filip. Replication data for: Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112989V1

Project Description

Summary: We integrate tools to monitor information acquisition in field experiments on discrimination and examine whether gaps arise already when decision makers choose the effort level for reading an application. In both countries we study, negatively stereotyped minority names reduce employers' effort to inspect resumes. In contrast, minority names increase information acquisition in the rental housing market. Both results are consistent with a model of endogenous allocation of costly attention, which magnifies the role of prior beliefs and preferences beyond the one considered in standard models of discrimination. The findings have implications for magnitude of discrimination, returns to human capital and policy.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      C93 Field Experiments
      D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J71 Labor Discrimination
      R31 Housing Supply and Markets

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