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Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy …
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This paper adds to knowledge on the role of politicians' and voters' identities in influencing policy-making in societies marked by ethnic inequality. The outcome we investigate is the initiatives and policies targeting Indigenous populations in the context of Australia. We ask whether and how...
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Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the remainder of the population. We contribute to the literature on horizontal inequalities in India by looking within these...
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groups in many societies. Group-based discrimination, among other factors, contributes. The paper further explores empirical …
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provide evidence for discrimination against female-owned enterprises in the formal lending market. Specifically, female …. No discrimination in formal credit markets may arise from the preference for informal loans over formal loans - that is …
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-generational prosperity, but also the linked phenomenon of discrimination. This paper examines whether caste-based differences in access to … formal agricultural loans reflect discrimination in banks' lending. We find, first, that there are significant caste …
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sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain highly segmented by race, with blacks disproportionally holding low …
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. Pervasive market and non-market discrimination against marginalized groups suggests that the significant caste disparities in …
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. Given stark inequalities by race in South Africa, this paper constructs a full set of race-disaggregated National Transfer … at older ages between race groups suggest that South Africa's second demographic dividend may be overstated by reliance …
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Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness of conscious direction. In this paper, I develop a model to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory experiment - a Dictator Game with sorting to study both these...
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