%0 Report
        %A Chowdhury, Shyamal
%A Klauzner, Ilya
%A Slonim, Robert
        %T What's in a Name? Does Racial or Gender Discrimination in Marking Exist?
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13890
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13890
        %X We study whether racial or gender discrimination in marking exists at universities by conducting an experiment at a major Australian university where we randomly assigned names indicative of White, Chinese or Adopter identities (comprised of a White first name and Chinese surname) and male or female gender to real exam coversheets and recruited university graders to mark these exams. We find that the most economically-significant evidence of discrimination is found at grade thresholds. Exam scripts with Chinese and Adopter names are less likely than White names to receive a mark just above a grade threshold. Conversely, scripts with Chinese names receive a small marking bonus on average compared to the same script with a White name. Discrimination at grade thresholds is found to be more consistent with taste-based discrimination, whereas discrimination at the average is more consistent with statistical discrimination.
        %K racial discrimination
%K experiment
%K marking