The Price of Prejudice
- Autor(en)
- Morten Hedegaard, Jean-Robert Tyran
- Abstrakt
We present a new type of field experiment to investigate ethnic prejudice in the workplace. Our design allows us to study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is common but highly responsive to the “price of prejudice”, i.e. to the opportunity cost of choosing a less productive worker on ethnic grounds. Discriminators are on average willing to forego 8 percent of their earnings to avoid a co-worker of the other ethnic type. The evidence suggests that animus rather than statistical discrimination explains observed behavior.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wiener Zentrum für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- University of Copenhagen
- Journal
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- Band
- 10
- Seiten
- 40-63
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 24
- ISSN
- 1945-7782
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20150241
- Publikationsdatum
- 01-2018
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 502002 Arbeitsmarkttheorie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-price-of-prejudice(32b9cc68-73dd-4fe4-bbd0-18df66256d04).html