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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442013
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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432670
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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444043
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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; Willrodt, Jana - 2020
, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208323
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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; Willrodt, Jana - 2020
, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210412
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Perceived fairness and consequences of affirmative action policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco; Trieu, Chi; … - 2022
performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Affirmative action favoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482644
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The incentive effects of affirmative action in a real-effort tournament
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Franke, Jörg; Rey-Biel, Pedro - In: Journal of Public Economics 98 (2013) C, pp. 15-31
Affirmative action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who have a disadvantage they cannot be held responsible for. Its implementation affects the underlying incentive structure which might induce lower performance by participants, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056126
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Asymmetric discouragement in asymmetric contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2016
We provide new experimental evidence which suggests an asymmetric discouragement effect in lottery contests with heterogeneous abilities. Compared to a symmetric contest, subjects invest less effort when facing a stronger opponent, but they invest the same when facing a weaker opponent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544119
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Asymmetric discouragement in asymmetric contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2016
We provide new experimental evidence which suggests an asymmetric discouragement effect in lottery contests with heterogeneous abilities. Compared to a symmetric contest, subjects invest less effort when facing a stronger opponent, but they invest the same when facing a weaker opponent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539207
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Identifying and overcoming gender barriers in tech : a field experiment on inaccurate statistical discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383603