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On the trajectory of discrimination : a meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions
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dc.contributor.author | Schaerer, M | |
dc.contributor.author | du Plessis, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Nguyen, M | |
dc.contributor.author | van Aert, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Tiokhin, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Lakens, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Clemente, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Pfeiffer, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Dreber, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Johannesson, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Clark, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration | |
dc.contributor.author | Uhlmann, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-15T15:30:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-15T15:30:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-11-10 | |
dc.identifier | 296314487 | |
dc.identifier | d0f855b2-00b2-40f0-91f4-0ccdf235ab59 | |
dc.identifier | 85176269117 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Schaerer , M , du Plessis , C , Nguyen , M , van Aert , R , Tiokhin , L , Lakens , D , Clemente , E , Pfeiffer , T , Dreber , A , Johannesson , M , Clark , C , Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration & Uhlmann , E 2023 , ' On the trajectory of discrimination : a meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions ' , Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , vol. 179 , 104280 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104280 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0749-5978 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-9053-3967/work/146962726 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-1147-3025/work/146964122 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/28715 | |
dc.description | Funding: Michael Schaerer benefitted from a Tier 1 Research Grant (MSS22B011) awarded by the Ministry of Education, Singapore. Michael Schaerer, Christilene du Plessis, and Eric Uhlmann further benefitted from a Tier 2 Research Grant (MM22B03) awarded by the Ministry of Education, Singapore. Daniel Lakens was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VIDI Grant 452-17-013. Anna Dreber benefitted from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation (grants P21-0091 and P23-0098), Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Scholar grant to A.D.). Cory Clark was supported by a grant from the Searle Freedom Trust. The research also benefitted from a grant by the Wharton-INSEAD Centre for Global Research awarded to Eric Uhlmann and Cory Clark, among others. Finally, Eric L. Uhlmann also received an R&D grant from INSEAD that supported this research. | en |
dc.description.abstract | A preregistered meta-analysis, including 244 effect sizes from 85 field audits and 361,645 individual job applications, tested for gender bias in hiring practices in female-stereotypical and gender-balanced as well as male-stereotypical jobs from 1976 to 2020. A “red team” of independent experts was recruited to increase the rigor and robustness of our meta-analytic approach. A forecasting survey further examined whether laypeople (n = 499 nationally representative adults) and scientists (n = 312) could predict the results. Forecasters correctly anticipated reductions in discrimination against female candidates over time. However, both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades. | |
dc.format.extent | 26 | |
dc.format.extent | 3733244 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Discrimination | en |
dc.subject | Field experiments | en |
dc.subject | Meta-analysis | en |
dc.subject | Open science | en |
dc.subject | Forecasting | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.title | On the trajectory of discrimination : a meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Economics (Business School) | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Management (Business School) | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104280 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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