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Complementary Bias : A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination

Craig, Ashley - 2017

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

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The Price of Political Opposition : Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta

Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2009

In 2004, the Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters whom had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to identify and punish these voters. We match the list of petition signers distributed by the government to...

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Changing Looks and Changing "Discrimination : " the Beauty of Economists

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

I estimate the effects of changing an ascriptive characteristic on a market outcome while keeping the average amount of information unchanged. Taking advantage of candidates' multiple appearances in elections to office in a professional association and of the presence of different photographs...

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An Empirical Test of Taste-Based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and Their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE During World War I

Moser, Petra - 2008

A significant challenge to empirically testing theories of discrimination has been the difficulty of identifying taste …-based discrimination and of distinguishing it clearly from statistical discrimination. This paper addresses this problem through a two …-part empirical test of taste-based discrimination. First, it constructs measures of revealed preferences, which establish that World …

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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination : An Identification Problem

Bohren, J. Aislinn - 2019

Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination … inaccurate statistical discrimination generates an identification problem for attempts to isolate the source of differential … of discrimination—to formally outline the identification problem: when not accounted for, inaccurate statistical …

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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? a Re-Examination of the Evidence

Neumark, David - 2016

There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …

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Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability

Leight, Jessica - 2018

Community targeting of vote payments — defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections — is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize laboratory experiments conducted in the U.S. and Kenya to demonstrate that, relative to individual...

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Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action : A Survey

Fang, Hanming - 2010

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?

Scott Morton, Fiona M.; Zettelmeyer, Florian; … - 2021

discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …

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On Fintech and Financial Inclusion

Philippon, Thomas - 2020

The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technological progress and increased competition. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale, and the use of big data and machine...

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