Does Politics Influence Hiring? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

By Karen Gift, Thomas Gift. 2015

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How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization (2019, background): “Growing partisan polarization has contributed to legislative gridlock (Binder 1999; Jones 2001), lower levels of trust in government (BandaandKirkland 2018; Hetherington and Rudolph 2015), and even job discrimination in nonpolitical domains (Gift and Gift 2014).”
Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization (2020, unknown): “Growing affective polarization may have important consequences, including reducing the efﬁcacy of government (Hetherington & Rudolph, 2015), 1 increasing the homophily of social groups (Iyengar et al., 2012, 2019), and altering economic decisions (Gift & Gift, 2015; Iyengar et al., 2019).”
The Polarizing Effects of Online Partisan Criticism: Evidence from Two Experiments (2018, methodology): “We use the terms affective and social polarization to describe these phenomena; however, one could also use the labels “prejudice” and “discrimination” (see Gift and Gift 2015; Iyengar and Westwood 2015).”
Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2020, background): “, 2018), and applicants affiliated with the minority party are less likely to receive a callback when sending their resume (Gift and Gift, 2015).”