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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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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco; 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/10013482644
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The lifecycle of affirmative action policies and its effect on effort and sabotage behavior
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, Martin - 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/10011544119
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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 …
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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 …
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Women's rights and the gender migration gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …
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Taxes and gender equality : the incidence of the "tampon tax"
Büttner, 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 consumer...
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Gender equality in Muslim-majority countries
Gouda, Moamen; Potrafke, Niklas - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459158
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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...
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