IZA Workshop on Discrimination and Ethnicity: A Cross-Disciplinary Look at New Methodological Advances

Monday, October 31:

09:45	-	10:15		Registration
10:15	-	10:45		Welcome Address by Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
				Session A: Statistical Discrimination, Prejudice and Bias
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
10:45	-	11:30		Joseph Price (Brigham Young University), Devin Pope (University of Chicago), Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania and IZA)
				"Awareness Reduces Racial Bias"
				Discussant: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Leicester)
11:30	-	12:15		Liang Choon Wang (Monash University), Michael Ewens (Carnegie Mellon University), Bryan Tomlin (Loyola University)
				"Statistical Discrimination or Prejudice? A Large Sample Field Experiment"
				Discussant: Martin Bog (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
12:15	-	13:15		Lunch
				Keynote Address
				Chair: Andrew J. Oswald (IZA)
13:15	-	14:15		David Neumark (University of California, Irvine)
				"Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies"
14:15	-	14:30		Coffee Break
				Session B: Discrimination in Hiring
				Chair: David Neumark (University of California, Irvine)
14:30	-	15:15		Dan-Olof Rooth (Linneaus University)
				"Automatic Associations and Discrimination in Hiring - Real World Evidence"
				Discussant: Ulf Rinne (IZA)
15:15	-	16:00		Ulf Rinne (IZA), Annabelle Krause (IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
				"A Little Less Discrimination? Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists"
				Discussant: Thomas Le Barbanchon (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
16:00	-	16:15		Coffee Break
				Session C: Discrimination and Identity 1
				Chair: Michèle Belot (Nuffield College, Oxford)
16:15	-	17:00		Marie-Anne Valfort (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Claire L. Adida (University of California, San Diego), David D. Laitin (Stanford University and IZA)
				"'One Muslim is Enough' Evidence from a Field Experiment in France"
				Discussant: Simone Schüller (IZA)
17:00	-	17:45		Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Adeline Delavande (RAND)
				"Gender Discrimination and Social Identity: Experimental Evidence from Urban Pakistan"
				Discussant: Michèle Belot (Nuffield College, Oxford)
18:30				Dinner at Restaurant "Roses", Martinsplatz 2a, Bonn

Tuesday, November 01:

				Session D: Discrimination and Identity 2
				Chair: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Leicester)
09:30	-	10:15		Brian Rubineau (Cornell University), Yoon Kang (Weill Cornell Medical College)
				"Bias in White: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment Measuring Changes in Discrimination"
				Discussant: Costanza Biavaschi (IZA)
10:15	-	11:00		Ruth Ditlmann (Yale University), Paul Lagunes (Yale University), Brian Levin (Yale University)
				"Do Municipal-issued ID Cards Buffer Against Biased Treatment? A Field Experiment in Retail Stores"
				Discussant: Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA)
11:00	-	11:15		Coffee Break
				Session E: Trust and Interethnic Interactions
				Chair: Zahra Siddique (IZA)
11:15	-	12:00		Michèle Belot (Nuffield College, Oxford)
				"Remembering Faces and Remembering Whom to Trust"
				Discussant: Hilary Bergsieker (Princeton University)
12:00	-	12:45		Hilary Bergsieker (Princeton University), J. Nicole Shelton (Princeton University), Jennifer A. Richeson (Northwestern University)
				"Asymmetries in Trust and Goals During Interethnic Interactions"
				Discussant: Zahra Siddique (IZA)
12:45				Closing Remarks