Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …

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 … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

. Beyond religious attitudes, the reform led to more equalized gender roles, fewer marriages and children, and higher labor …

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly …'s sexuality. Using within-country variation across 500,000 women in 34 countries, the paper shows that women from historically …