| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13790 |
| DP13790 Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem | |
| Aislinn Bohren; Kareem Haggag; Alex Imas; Devin G. Pope | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-06-11 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Discrimination, defined as differential treatment by group identity, is widely studied in economics. Its source is often categorized as taste-based or statistical (belief-based)---a valuable distinction for policy design and welfare analysis. However, in many situations individuals may have inaccurate beliefs about the relevant characteristics of different groups. This paper demonstrates that this possibility creates an identification problem when isolating the source of discrimination. A review of the empirical discrimination literature in economics reveals that a small minority of papers---fewer than 7%---consider inaccurate beliefs. We show both theoretically and experimentally that, if not accounted for, such inaccurate statistical discrimination will be misclassified as taste-based. We then examine three alternative methodologies for differentiating between different sources of discrimination: varying the amount of information presented to evaluators, eliciting their beliefs, and presenting them with accurate information. Importantly, the latter can be used to differentiate whether inaccurate beliefs are due to a lack of information or motivated factors. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Discrimination Inaccurate beliefs Model misspecification |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13790-1 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542660 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aislinn Bohren,Kareem Haggag,Alex Imas,et al. DP13790 Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem. 2019. |
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