Experience-Based Discrimination

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lepage, Louis-Pierre
• 署名单位: Stockholm University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20220466
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 288-321
• 关键词: AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION; LABOR; INFORMATION; stereotypes; MARKETS

摘要

I study discrimination arising from individual experiences of employers with worker groups. I present a model in which employers are uncertain about the productivity of one of two groups and learn through hiring. Positive experiences lead to positive biases, which correct themselves by leading to more hiring and learning. Negative experiences decrease hiring and learning, preserving negative biases, which can cause persistent discrimination. The model explains prejudice as incorrect statistical discrimination and generates novel predictions and policy implications. I then illustrate experience-based discrimination in an experimental labor market, finding support for key model predictions.