Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
通过实地实验监测信息获取，研究决策者在阅读申请时是否因种族刻板印象而投入不同努力，发现少数族裔名字降低雇主简历审查努力，但在租房市场增加信息获取，表明注意力分配的内生性放大了先验信念和偏好的作用。
We integrate tools to monitor information acquisition in field experiments on discrimination and examine whether gaps arise already when decision makers choose the effort level for reading an application. In both countries we study, negatively stereotyped minority names reduce employers' effort to inspect resumes. In contrast, minority names increase information acquisition in the rental housing market. Both results are consistent with a model of endogenous allocation of costly attention, which magnifies the role of prior beliefs and preferences beyond the one considered in standard models of discrimination. The findings have implications for magnitude of discrimination, returns to human capital and policy.