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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/10014469427
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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/10014469823
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127326
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Defining Generalized Workplace Discrimination
Sims, Carra; Dalal, Reeshad S. - 2010
Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender …). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct … of generalized workplace discrimination that clarifies the overlap among different types of discriminatory experiences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045663
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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/10014433636
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The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Franke, Jörg; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
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. Critics argue that they distort incentives, resulting in lower individual performance, and that the selected pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547484
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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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A cure for discrimination? Affirmative action and the case of California Proposition 209
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2005
Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government contracting. This paper uses CPS data and triple difference techniques to take advantage of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267531
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532400
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Anonymous job applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725392