Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolas; Hamermesh, Daniel S.
• 署名单位: University of Gothenburg; University of Melbourne; University of Queensland; ARC Centre of Excellence for Children & Families Over the Life Course; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12289
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1503-1527
• 关键词: gender; association; favoritism; JUDGMENT; Nepotism; BEHAVIOR; BIAS

摘要

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.