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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25322 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25322 |
The Heterogeneous Effect of Affirmative Action on Performance | |
Anat Bracha; Alma Cohen; Lynn Conell-Price | |
发表日期 | 2018-12-10 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper experimentally investigates the effect of gender-based affirmative action (AA) on performance in the lab, focusing on a tournament environment. The tournament is based on GRE math questions commonly used in graduate school admission, and at which women are known to perform worse on average than men. We find heterogeneous effect of AA on female participants: AA lowers the performance of high-ability women and increases the performance of low-ability women. Our results are consistent with two possible mechanisms—one is that AA changes incentives differentially for low- and high-ability women, and the second is that AA triggers stereotype threat. |
主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Law and Economics |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25322 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582996 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anat Bracha,Alma Cohen,Lynn Conell-Price. The Heterogeneous Effect of Affirmative Action on Performance. 2018. |
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