Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study
通过实地实验，研究老年女性在入门级岗位招聘中是否受歧视，发现年轻求职者获得面试机会的概率比年长者高40%以上，且证据不支持偏好型歧视，而统计性歧视有一定依据。
As baby boomers reach retirement age, demographic pressures on public programs may cause policy makers to cut benefits and encourage employment at later ages. But how much demand exists for older workers? This paper reports on a field experiment to determine hiring conditions for older women in entry-level jobs in two cities. A younger worker is more than 40 percent more likely to be offered an interview than is an older worker. No evidence is found to support taste-based discrimination as a reason for this differential, and some suggestive evidence is found to support statistical discrimination.