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Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
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The Lifecycle of Affirmative Action Policies and Its Effect on Effort and Sabotage Behavior
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, … - 2023
A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...
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Asymmetric Discouragement in Asymmetric Contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2016
We provide new experimental evidence which suggests an asymmetric discouragement effect in lottery contests with heterogeneous abilities. Compared to a symmetric contest, subjects invest less effort when facing a stronger opponent, but they invest the same when facing a weaker opponent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555550
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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech: A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427756
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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech : A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
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Taxes and Gender Equality : The Incidence of the ‘Tampon Tax’
Buettner, Thiess; Hechtner, Frank; Madzharova, Boryana - 2023
Many countries are currently debating whether to reduce or eliminate taxes on feminine hygiene products as a measure to address “period poverty” and promote gender equality. Legislators often reject proposals involving reforms of “tampon taxes” as the pass-through of sales taxes into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345958
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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco A.; Trieu, Chi - 2022
performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Affirmative action favoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290108
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Covid-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility against Foreigners
Bartos, Vojtech; Bauer, Michal; Cahlikova, Jana; … - 2020
Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227649
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An Experimental Analysis of In-Group Favoritism and Out-Group Discrimination in the Gain and Loss Domain
Antinyan, Armenak; Aydinyan, Tigran; Ressi, Anna; … - 2023
is to shed more light on whether intergroup discrimination manifests itself differently in a loss compared to a gain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377580
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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men’s relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
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