Mapping discrimination in Europe through a field experiment in amateur sport
This is a paper that I wrote together with Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez and Helmut Dietl. Using mock email accounts with typical native-sounding and foreign-sounding names, we contacted 23,020 amateur football clubs in 22 European countries, asking to participate in a training session. Response rates differed across countries and were, on average, about 10% lower for foreign-sounding names. You can find the complete paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00773-2 The results for women (from a different study) are from: www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01734-7 |
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Gender Information and Perceived Quality: An Experiment with Professional Soccer Performance
It took me several years to finally publish this paper together with Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Dave Berri, and Helmut Dietl. We perform an experiment in which participants viewed clips of elite women and men football players. In the control group, participants evaluate unmodified videos where the gender of the players is clear to see. In the treatment group, participants evaluate the same videos but with gender obscured by blurring. We find that participants rate men’s videos higher - but only when they know they are watching men. When blurring obscures the gender, ratings for women and men athletes do not differ.
You can find the complete paper here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2023.2233341
Below is an example of unblurred videos (L) and blurred videos (R)
Examining Discrimination against Jews in Italy with Three Natural Field Experiments
I worked on this research paper together with Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Petr Parshakov, and Helmut Dietl. We use three natural field experiments to examine anti-Semitism in Italy by sending email inquiries to amateur football clubs, landlords, and employers and comparing the response rates to emails sent with Jewish- and non-Jewish-sounding names. The results show significant discrimination when looking for football club and an apartment, but not when seeking a job.
After the Crimea crisis: Employee discrimination in Russia and Ukraine I wrote this paper together with Iuliia Naidenova, Petr Parshakov, and Aleksei Chusovliankin. We examine the issue of employee discrimination after a political crisis: the annexation of Crimea. The annexation, which resulted in a political crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations, is a setting which allows us to test if a bilateral political issue caused employee discrimination. We use a quasi-experimental approach to examine how the political crisis influenced participation in major sports leagues in Russia and Ukraine. The results show that the employment conditions significantly worsened since the Crimea crisis started. You can find the complete paper here: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240811 |
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