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Gender Equality in Muslim-Majority Countries

Gouda, Moamen - 2016

Discrimination has been documented against women in Muslim-majority countries. Constitutions differ among Muslim …-majority countries. By using women's rights indicators and exploiting cross-country variation, we find that discrimination against women …

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Procedurally Fair Collective Provision : Its Requirements and Experimental Functionality

Güth, Werner - 2014

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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723523

Gender Quotas : Challenging the Boards, Performance, and the Stock Market

Ferrari, Giulia - 2016

In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...

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Gender Quotas, Competitions, and Peer Review : Experimental Evidence on the Backlash Against Women

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2021

This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...

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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.

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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2010

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

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How is the Trade-Off between Adverse Selection and Discrimination Risk Affected by Genetic Testing? Theory and Experiment

Bardey, David - 2017

discrimination risk. CL allows agents to withhold that information, generating adverse selection. We complement our model with an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958445

Prioritization vs. Zero-Rating : Discrimination on the Internet

Gautier, Axel - 2018

content at different speeds and it is equivalent to a discrimination in terms of quality. With zero-rating, the ISP charges … different prices for content and it is equivalent to a discrimination in terms of prices. We first show that neither of these …

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