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We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
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This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions aimed at increasing public goods provision in settings in which accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to exploit lying aversion by requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post...
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made all the more clear that public health is a public good. Public health interventions try to encourage contributions to this public good. Digital public health interventions are increasingly being used to complement traditional public health interventions. The...
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that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity … and religion each have independent effects on discrimination. Tendencies towards discrimination differ greatly between …
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The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...
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Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists … have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical … discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules …
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Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists … have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical … discrimination. To enrich this taxonomy, we design a hiring experiment that rules out both of these sources of discrimination along …
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This paper studies a key element of discrimination, namely when stereotypes translate into discriminatory actions …. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief …-based gender discrimination. We document evidence of explicit discriminators-individuals who are willing to discriminate even when …
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We analyze the welfare implications of property taxation. Using a sufficient statistics approach, we show that the tax … inelastic. Combining reduced form estimates with our theoretical framework, we simulate the welfare effects of property taxes …
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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...
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