Schmidt, Robert J.; Trautmann, Stefan T. - In: The journal of law, economics, and organization 39 (2023) 1, pp. 199-234
We study the selection of people when unequal payoffs are inevitable, but fair procedures are feasible, as in selecting one person from several candidates for a job. We show that allocators may be influenced by their similarity with a recipient, leading to favoritism in outcomes. We study four...