Alex Imas Wins Exeter Prize for Research on Gender Discrimination

The CDR is pleased to announce Chicago Booth's Alex Imas, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, was recently awarded the 2020 Exeter Prize, which recognizes "the best paper published in the previous calendar year in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Decision Theory and Behavioural Economics."

Imas and co-authors J. Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania) and Michael Rosenberg (CarGurus) were honored for their paper, “The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence,” published in The American Economic Review.

"My co-authors and I are honored to receive this prize," said Imas. "We hope that our paper highlights why it is important to study how discrimination evolves over time, both for understanding its source and designing effective policy interventions."

In their announcement, the Exeter Prize Team noted:

"The paper makes an important contribution to a question of high social relevance. It highlights a need for studies of dynamics of performance and judgment within female discrimination literature. Furthermore, it demonstrates the importance of the presence of objective evidence regarding performance at early stages of the interaction to offset biases and prejudices – an observation with important policy implication in many organizations." 

Congratulations to Professor Imas, his co-authors, and all of those who were considered for this year's Exeter Prize!