New publication | On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions
A meta-analysis of field audits of gender gaps in application outcomes between 1976 and 2020 found that the discrimination of women for male-typed and balanced jobs decreased over time. Anna Dreber Almenberg and Magnus Johannesson, Professors at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors publish a new article in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Dreber and Johannesson with co-authors examined gender discrimination on the labor market in a meta-analysis of 85 field audits of gender gaps in application outcomes. The included studies covered the period 1976 to 2020 and the results of the meta-analysis found that discrimination against women for male-typed and balanced jobs decreased over time. The meta-analysis was accompanied by a forecasting study, and the forecasters predicted the observed decline in discrimination but overestimated the degree of remaining discrimination. The discrimination of men for female-typed jobs remained stable over time, which was not anticipated by the forecasters that predicted that the discrimination had decreased over time.
