News

Event

Think-Manager-Think-Male: the role of unconscious discrimination in the workplace

Examining managers’ evaluation of resumes in a large publicly-listed Italian firm, we find that managers unintentionally discriminate against women and that exposing managers to their own bias closes the gender gap in resumes’ evaluation. We measure managers’ unconscious bias through the Gender-Career Implicit Association Test (IAT) and, akin to an...

Presented by: Professor Paola Profeta, Bocconi University

Venue: Online.

Event

UKMOD training course

Presented by: Justin Van De Ven and Matteo Richiardi

Venue: abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, Edinburgh

Event

Joint Economics / ISER Seminar Series

Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent

Presented by: Fabian Waldinger

Venue: Economics Common Room 5B.307

Event

Anyone still offline? Digital inequality and offline population inclusion strategies for panel survey studies – Evidence from Germany.

Like many countries across the world, Germany can increasingly be described as a digital society, in which people regularly use the internet in their everyday lives, for example for shopping, working, communicating, and entertainment. However, internet usage skills as well as the availability and quality of internet access are unequally...

Presented by: Dr Carina Cornesse, DIW Berlin

Venue: SSRC416 (2N2.4.16)

News

How do we respond to government ‘stimulus payments’?

Dr Paul Fisher explains his research into how we behave when the Government makes payments to citizens – like energy support – to stimulate the economy and offset financial challenges people might be facing