Endophilia or exophobia: : Beyond discrimination

• Autores: Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca
• Localización: Economic journal, ISSN 0013-0133, Vol. 126, Nº 594, 2016, págs. 1503-1527
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The discrimination literature treats outcomes as relative. But does a differential arise because agents discriminate against others - exophobia - or because they favour their own kind - endophilia? Using a field experiment that assigned graders randomly to students' examinations that did/did not contain names, we find favouritism but no discrimination by nationality nor by gender. We are able to identify these preferences under a wide range of behavioural scenarios regarding the graders. That endophilia dominates exophobia alters how we should measure discriminatory wage differentials and should inform the formulation of anti-discrimination policy