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side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … find that aggregate surplus decreases when risk aversion is high. When risk aversion is low however, discrimination …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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face greater discrimination. …
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The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual marriage and adoption of children. In this paper, we examine for the first time whether schools are...
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a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …
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-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups. Individuals expect others to be in-group biased, as well as to be …
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This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to … employees expect to be favored. The manager, who has no taste for discrimination, discriminates in order to avoid demotivating …
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