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Dahm, Matthias; Esteve, Patricia - 2014

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...

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Does affirmative action reduce effort incentives? : a contest game analysis

Franke, Jörg - 2010

. Competition is between heterogeneous players where heterogeneity might be due to past discrimination. Two policy options are … heterogeneity between contestants is moderate. -- Asymmetric contest ; affirmative action ; discrimination …

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The Disability–Employability Divide : Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity

Areheart, Bradley A.; Stein, Michael Ashley - 2018

Joseph Fishkin’s new book, Bottlenecks, reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin describes bottlenecks as narrow spaces in the opportunity structure through which people must pass if they...

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Affirmative action through extra prizes

Dahm, Matthias; Esteve-González, Patricia - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 153 (2018), pp. 123-142

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Chapter 5. Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey

Fang, Hanming; Moro, Andrea - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 133-200). 2011

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

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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...

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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

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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies

Norman, Peter; Fang, Hanming - 2008

This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...

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(Un)Equal Protection : Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016

discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued … long-ignored cases that approved of sex discrimination, this Article explains how the Court's rulings in this area have … equal protection that authorizes certain forms of sex discrimination, (Un)Equal Protection advocates for one particular …

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Equality of Opportunity

Roemer, John E. - 2013

This forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Income Distribution (eds., A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon) summarizes the literature on equality of opportunity. We begin by reviewing the philosophical debate concerning equality since Rawls (sections 1 and 2), present economic algorithms for...

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