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 …

identities are fixed. Discrimination cannot be explained by employers' beliefs and hence seems to be taste-based. When possible … towards ingroup workers and eliminates discrimination. …

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 …

a disease (a discrimination risk). Differently, Consent Law allows them to hide this detrimental information, creating …

This paper studies a job-assignment model incorporating taste discrimination and statistical discrimination … simultaneously. We argue that when taste discrimination of some employers can affect the human capital investment behavior of a … particular group of workers, other employers without taste discrimination will take this effect into account when hiring …

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 …

explanation for this pattern, namely preference- and belief-free discrimination. In our setting, an employer can increase effort … discrimination between workers optimal. …

This paper models employers' preference for discrimination toward ex ante identical groups of workers when the workers … must compete for limited positions. Employers benefit from discrimination against minority workers because it can reduce …

Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of … discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or … intensifies the emotional response to the object of discrimination. This paper builds on this insight based on the understanding …

discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically defined as discrimination in a legal sense … - what we label total discrimination in the current study -, although it cannot separate between preferences and statistical … discrimination. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) convincingly show that audit and correspondence studies can obtain biased …