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fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …
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commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …
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This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
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This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in … receive different investments depending on the district they live in. The systematics of the discrimination pattern is … increases in the socio-economic status it decreases in the degree of ethnic heterogeneity. Observed discrimination is not just …
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resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing the bargaining power of women reduces pro-boy discrimination. We … find that expenditure patterns do vary with proxies for women's bargaining power. Pro-boy discrimination is suggested by …
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measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …
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