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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we … discrimination against migrants by the general population is both widespread and substantial. Our causal moderation analysis shows …
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away money from the group. Our results speak to a long-standing debate on the causes of racism and discrimination and …
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is to shed more light on whether intergroup discrimination manifests itself differently in a loss compared to a gain …
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-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …
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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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This paper proposes a novel empirical strategy to estimate the causal effects of federal "redlining" - the mapping and grading of US neighborhoods by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC). In the late 1930s, a federal agency created color-coded maps to summarize the financial risk of granting...
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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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