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Some affirmative action policies establish that a set of disadvantaged competitors has access to an extra prize. We analyse the effects of creating an extra prize by reducing the prize in the main competition. Contestants differ in ability and agents with relatively low ability belong to a...
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. Competition is between heterogeneous players where heterogeneity might be due to past discrimination. Two policy options are … heterogeneity between contestants is moderate. -- Asymmetric contest ; affirmative action ; discrimination …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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The first claim in the Article is that the norm against marketplace discrimination encompasses two distinct norms. The … first (prohibiting "simple discrimination") provides plaintiffs the uncircumscribed right to prohibit defendants from … advert to social groups depends on whether one is considering the norm prohibiting simple discrimination or the norm …
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Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender …). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct … of generalized workplace discrimination that clarifies the overlap among different types of discriminatory experiences …
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Joseph Fishkin’s new book, Bottlenecks, reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin describes bottlenecks as narrow spaces in the opportunity structure through which people must pass if they...
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