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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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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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442013

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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All-pay auctions with extra prize : a partial exclusion principle

Dahm, Matthias - 2017

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...

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Double jeopardy? : caste, affirmative action, and stigma

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2016

This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social-psychological mechanisms of 'externalization' and 'internalization' to understand the possible consequences of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative...

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Affirmative action policy and effort levels : sequential-move contest game argument

Kwiatkowski, Andrzej - 2010

heterogeneity could be the consequence of past discrimination, we study the effects of implementation of affirmative action policy …. -- Asymmetric contest ; sequential-move contest ; affirmative action; discrimination …

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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 …

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Does affirmative action address ethnic inequality? : a systematic review of the literature

Schotte, Simone; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leone, Tharcisio - 2023

Despite the good intentions behind affirmative action (AA) policies to mediate 'horizontal inequalities' between ethnic groups, the evidence on their effectiveness remains open to debate. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of the literature with global scope, to add new clarity on...

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