Discrimination

Does discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation during the housing search add to existing forms of discrimination and marginalisation? Does this further limit the opportunities for LGBTQ+ people in Latin America?

Evidence from India shows that discussions between peers from the same majority-group that include topics involving transgender people can be effective at reducing anti-transgender discrimination.

Representation in child media matters. Sesame Street’s positive representations of minorities and working women in 1969 had long run impacts on prejudices, influencing people’s propensity to vote for diverse candidates decades later.

Employers can discriminate and restrict women from taking up employment opportunities deemed unsafe. Research from Bangladesh suggests female workers entering the labour market may suffer most from paternalistic discrimination, where male workers ‘pr...

While caste-based occupations may hold 'productivity benefits', removing the discriminatory links between low castes and work brings even larger gains

Discrimination in consumer lending seems to come largely from biased male officers; combatting it may require cultural changes at the institutional level

Access to formal complaints technologies improves minorities’ strategic bargaining power within local government and improves public good provision

In Indian banks, cultural proximity (shared beliefs, ethnicity) between lenders and borrowers increases access to credit and reduces default

Being unmarried, especially through widowhood, can have substantial effects on relative rates of female mortality in the developing world