This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

-scale, incentivized lab-in-field-experiment based on the investment game, allowing us to assess the in-group bias of native German … backgrounds. In contrast, in classrooms characterized by non-cultural polarization, fractionalization, or a native supermajority …, there are significantly lower levels of own-group favoritism. In terms of mechanisms, we find empirical evidence that …