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We evaluate whether a major affirmative action program for a deprived caste in India has affected infant and child mortality rates among the target caste. The program reserves a substantial fraction of public sector jobs for those from the deprived caste and was implemented on September 8, 1993....
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This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using … redistribute earnings by voting on a tax rate for the group. Discrimination against women highly increases preferred tax rates and … discrimination against whites or people of color moderately increases the demand for redistribution. The results indicate that …
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Technological progress allows Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to carry out network manage-ment practices in a discriminatory fashion without being detected by their customers. This creates an opportunity that providers will exploit this information asymmetry in an opportunistic way by blocking...
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noteworthy that actual consumer discrimination has only been proven in a small number of individual case studies. Hence, we aim … between an impaired quality of service and potential discrimination behaviour by the ISP. The paper at hand examines ISPs …
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A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
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We examine how leadership affects a dynamic public goods game. Using a setting where cooperation gains can be reinvested, our findings suggest that leadership has a positive impact on final wealth. Somewhat surprisingly, leadership also has a positive impact on reducing inequality within groups...
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Discrimination of women in the labor market requires appropriate policy interventions. Affirmative action policies …, employment, and welfare in a labor market with search frictions and taste discrimination. A tradable employment quota appears to …
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The current paper studies discrimination in a model in which promotions are used as signals of worker ability. The … model can account for both statistical and taste-based discrimination. A positive discrimination policy lowers the promotion …
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With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the feminization of elementary school teaching is causing debates across the globe about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel data on the universe of students, teachers and schools for a German state, I exploit...
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discrimination to the detriment of immigrants, whose individual background and work assimilation is similar to that of Italian VT …
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