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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...
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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/10011555550
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
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
With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians became the victims of a sudden increase in racial discrimination as … customer and employer 'taste discrimination'. The pandemic has also proven particularly harmful on businesses owned by recently …
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Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …
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discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …
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We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...
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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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