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 three different affirmative action policies. Our results rely on a population …