Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

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 no...

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Published in:The Economic journal (London) 2016-08, Vol.126 (594), p.1503-1527
Main Authors: Feld, Jan, Salamanca, Nicolás, Hamermesh, Daniel S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic grading
ASSOCIATION
BEHAVIOR
BIAS
Discrimination
Economics
Employment policies
FAVORITISM
GENDER
JUDGMENT
Nationalekonomi
NEPOTISM
Studies
Wage differential
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0013-0133
1468-0297
DOI:10.1111/ecoj.12289