Arbeitspapier
Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey
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-representative sample from the US. We find that support for affirmative action is based both on self-serving motives and principled grounds (e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By contrast, in-group favouritism and socio-demographic characteristics play a much smaller role.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10822
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Other
Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
- Thema
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support for affirmative action
self-serving motives
in-group favoritism
altruism
efficiency
fairness
discrimination
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Herzog, Sabrina
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah
Trieu, Chi
Willrodt, Jana
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Herzog, Sabrina
- Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah
- Trieu, Chi
- Willrodt, Jana
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2023
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