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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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investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … strategic misrepresentation of ethnicity increases Georgian trustors' expected back transfers and eliminates their …
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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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I consider a market with two firms, a minority group of customers, and a bigoted (racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, or sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves only the minority and a high-price firm serves only...
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The Finnish basic income experiment was an ambitious effort to study basic income in a Nordic welfare state. This paper describes the planning, implementation and scientific evaluation of the experiment. The randomized treatment group was paid a guaranteed monthly income, which had no impact on...
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that signaling explicit interest in employee diversity can reverse the ethnicity gap in rates of interest and applications …
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This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
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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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is to shed more light on whether intergroup discrimination manifests itself differently in a loss compared to a gain …
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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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