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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
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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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Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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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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This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of … discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination … discriminatory practices in the region. This puzzle, where individuals perceive discrimination is in the air, but few act …
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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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