Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey

The list experiment and a pre-analysis plan are preregistered on the American Economic Association’s registry for randomized control trials (AEARCTR-0008820): https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.8820. The authors thank Brad Barber, Patrick Button, Ian Chadd, Marcus Dillender, Keith Marzilli Ericson, Gilbert Gonzales, Oliver Hauser, Julian Jamison, Boon Han Koh, Max Lee, Tara McKay, David McKenzie, Sonia Oreffice, Connor Redpath, and Lisa Windsteiger for their helpful comments. The authors also thank seminar participants at American Economic Association Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession, Bocconi University, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, George Mason University, Jönköping University, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Middlebury College, Monash University, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Southern Methodist University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad de Alicante, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Exeter, Utrecht University, Vanderbilt University, and Williams College; and conference participants at the 2023 American Economic Association/Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Conference on LGBTQ+ Methodologies, the 56th Annual Canadian Economics Association Meetings, the 2022 World Economic Science Association Conference, the 2023 North America Economic Science Association Conference, the 2022 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, the 10th Economics Days at École normale supérieure de Lyon, and the University of East Anglia Discrimination and Diversity Workshop for their feedback. All errors are the authors’ own.