Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
| Title: | Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition |
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| Authors: | Vojtěch Bartoš; Michal Bauer; Julie Chytilová; Filip Matějka; Jel Codes C |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://home.cerge-ei.cz/bauer/AttentionDiscrimination.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | attention; discrimination; field experiment; monitoring information acquisition |
| Description: | 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 |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1032.2725 |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1032.2725; http://home.cerge-ei.cz/bauer/AttentionDiscrimination.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.DD50715A |
| Database: | BASE |