Some affirmative action policies establish that a set of disadvantaged competitors has access to an extra prize. We analyse the effects of creating an extra prize by reducing the prize in the main competition. Contestants differ in ability and agents with relatively low ability belong to a...

This paper investigates the implications of the unequal division of the domestic labor in men and women participation and incentives to exert effort in competitive relations, in which the labor market is the main example. We found that moderate levels of affirmative action (bias in favor of...

This paper studies the effects of a specific affirmative action policy in complete information all-pay auctions when players differ in ability. We call this policy an extra prize. The contest organiser splits the prize of the competition into a main prize and an extra prize. Extra prizes differ...