“...This study examined whether automatic stereotypes captured by the implicit association test (IAT) can predict real hiring discrimination against the obese. In...”

“...To identify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills, we exploit conditionally random variation in the date Swedish males take a battery of cognitive...”

“...This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings...”

“...In most EU countries, ethnic minorities have lower wages than does the ethnic majority. To what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward...”

“...We conduct a survey of newly hired workers in the Swedish labour market to analyse if there are differences between natives and immigrants in the choice of...”

“...In a field experiment, we sent out 5,636 job applications varying how Swedish (in-group) and Arab (out-group) applicants presented themselves in terms of two...”

“...This is the first study providing empirical support for automatically activated associations inducing discriminatory behavior among recruiters in a real-life...”

“...Purpose - The aim of this paper is to examine whether Swedish employers implicitly/automatically hold negative attitudes toward Arab-Muslims, an ethnic...”

“...We present evidence of ethnic discrimination in the recruitment process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings. Applications with identical...”

“...We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes using data on Swedish twins born between 1926 and 1958 linked to administrative records spanning...”