对平权行动的需求缺乏弹性

IF 2.8 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

European Economic Review Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104862

Demid Getik , Marco Islam , Margaret Samahita

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摘要

我们在一系列在线实验中研究了经济激励在推动支持平权行动（AA）中的作用。参与者扮演雇主，决定是否在招聘中使用 AA。我们采用了三种处理方法，以区分因认为性别在生产率上存在差异、认为平权法案对生产率的影响或平权法案给雇主带来的其他成本而产生的平权法案偏好。约有 1/3 的雇主坚持实施 AA 制，尽管我们成功地改变了对生产率差异的看法，但并未发现不同处理之间存在显著差异。我们的研究结果表明，AA 的选择反映了对女性候选人晋升的内在偏好和非弹性偏好。

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The inelastic demand for affirmative action

We study the role of financial incentives in driving support for affirmative action (AA) in a series of online experiments. Participants act as employers deciding whether to use AA in hiring. We implement three treatments to disentangle AA preferences stemming from perceived gender differences in productivity, perceived effects of AA on productivity, or other costs of AA for employers. Around 1/3 of employers consistently implement AA, and we do not find any significant difference across treatments, despite successfully altering beliefs about productivity differences. Our results suggest that AA choice reflects a more intrinsic and inelastic preference for advancing female candidates.

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European Economic Review ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

3.60%

发文量

170

期刊介绍： The European Economic Review (EER) started publishing in 1969 as the first research journal specifically aiming to contribute to the development and application of economics as a science in Europe. As a broad-based professional and international journal, the EER welcomes submissions of applied and theoretical research papers in all fields of economics. The aim of the EER is to contribute to the development of the science of economics and its applications, as well as to improve communication between academic researchers, teachers and policy makers across the European continent and beyond.