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Procedurally Fair Collective Provision: Its Requirements and Experimental Functionality
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper derives and justifies a procedurally fair bidding mechanism and reviews experiments that apply the mechanism to public projects provision. In the experiments, not all parties benefit from provision, and the projects’ costs can be negative. The experimental results indicate that the...
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State
Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2007
In this paper, we discuss a novel aspect of affirmative action policy. We examine its redistributive role, asking whether in an egalitarian society, supplementing the tax-transfer system with an affirmative action policy would enhance social welfare.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406071
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Innovation Contests
Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877748
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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The Preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel: Evidence and Theory
Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - CESifo - 2014
quantitative criteria to confirm that Israel is subject to discrimination. To explain the motives for discrimination, we present a …
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Household Models: An Historical Perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...
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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
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What’s in a Name?
Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - CESifo - 2004
discrimination may also be a factor. …
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