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We merge job board vacancies and employer records to study how the campaign affected hiring choices and the gender diversity of occupations and workplaces. Using pre-campaign data, we predict the use of gender preferences, then conduct a difference-in-differences analysis of hiring outcomes for vacancies with predicted male or female preferences, relative to those with no predicted preferences. The elimination of explicit gender preferences boosted the share of women hired for jobs that were likely to be targeted to men (and vice versa). At the firm level, we find that the campaign led to a rise in the share of women at firms that were more likely to use male stated gender preferences (SGP\u2019s), and a symmetric increase in the share of men at firms that were likely to use female SGP\u2019s, with no effects on firm survival, employment, or average wages.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/restud\/rdae085","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,22]],"date-time":"2024-08-22T02:39:56Z","timestamp":1724294396000},"page":"2437-2471","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"92","author":[{"given":"David","family":"Card","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economics, University of California , Berkeley, California 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