Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment

The authors thank Martin Abel, Vojtech Bartos, Katherine Coffman, Alex Coutts, Tom Cunningham, Jon de Quidt, Tilman Fries, Thomas Graeber, Simone Häckl, Kareem Haggag, Lea Heursen, Alex Imas, Dorothea Kübler, Yves Le Yaouanq, Heather Sarsons, Julia Schmieder, Florian Schneider, Alice Solda, Martin Spann, Robert Stüber, Müge Süer, Roel van Veldhuizen, and the audiences at the WZB Brown Bag Seminar, the ESA Global 2020 Meeting, the CRC TRR 190 Ohlstadt 2020 Retreat, the 2021 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, the Bergen-Berlin Behavioral Economics Spring Workshop 2022, the MiddExLab Seminar, Stockholm University’s SOFI Labour Economics Seminar, UC Davis’s Behavioral Economics Seminar, and the 2nd Berlin Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Gender Economics for helpful comments. The authors thank the WZB for generously funding this project through its interdisciplinary “seed money” program. The data and software code to reproduce all analyses are available at https://github.com/stefgehrig/implicitgender.