An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor … misallocation, leading to aggregate productivity losses of 5-10 per cent. In particular, tariffs are strongly related to distortions …

-formal transitions. Our results show that productivity is considerably lower and misallocation more prevalent in the informal than in the …

misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a … reallocation of factor inputs to more productive farmers, we find that misallocation across farmers remains high and increased …

face greater discrimination. …

evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in terms of probability of being contacted and the number of …

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …

allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no … evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the child caregivers. We also weigh-in on the … usefulness of non-incentivized experiments in discrimination experiments. …