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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier : Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes : A Field Experiment on Discrimination
Castillo, Marco - 2012
. These differentials are consistent with both statistical and taste-based discrimination. To identify the source of the … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …
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Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2017
We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Hometown ties to fellow selection committee members increase candidates' election probability by 39 percent, coming entirely from the...
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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : a Study of South Carolina
Heckman, James J. - 2015
This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate...
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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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Measuring Discrimination in Education
Hanna, Rema - 2010
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152556
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Covid-19 : Testing Inequality in New York City
Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie - 2020
Motivated by reports in the media suggesting unequal access to Covid-19 testing across incomes, we analyze zip-code level data on the number of Covid-19 tests, test results, and income per capita in New York City. We find that the number of tests administered is evenly distributed across income...
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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A. - 2008
and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2008
discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …This paper tests the predictions about the relationship between racial prejudice and racial wage gaps from Becker …'s (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics …
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Revealing Stereotypes : Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2018
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context … grading to teachers' stereotypes, elicited through an Implicit Association Test (IAT). We find that math teachers with … stronger stereotypes give lower grades to immigrants compared to natives with the same performance. Literature teachers do not …
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