Download or read book Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Discrimination written by Ali M. Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Behavioral Economics written by Deepti Bhatia and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Discrimination and Responsible Consumption Essays in Behavioral Economics written by Maivand Sarin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Behavioral Economics and Ethics written by Silvia Saccardo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation examines the behavioral factors that affect the emergence of unethical behaviors and inequalities in today's society. Using insights from behavioral economics and experimental methods, I investigate the drivers of phenomena such as corruption, dishonesty, ethnic-discrimination, and gender-based differences in preferences. Chapter 1 explores the mechanism through which receiving bribes leads evaluators to distort choices. In both a laboratory experiment in the US and an experiment in a market in India, evaluators receive bribes that distort their quality recommendations. We show that the driver of distortion is greed and not reciprocity. Chapter 2 examines how self-deception affects judgment distortion in the presence of incentives. We show that when evaluators can convince themselves that they are behaving ethically, they are more likely to distort their judgment. When self-deception is not possible, recommendations are more honest. This shows that in some cases people are able to behave unethically without suffering from feelings of guilt or shame, by convincing themselves that they are ethical. Chapter 3 explores individuals' unwillingness to provide negative feedback to others, which results in a "must lie situation". By asking experimental subjects to evaluate others' attractiveness, we show that individuals prefer to lie rather than tell an undesirable truth, even if lying comes at a monetary cost to both the person who gives the feedback and the person who receives it. Chapter 4 studies prejudice-based ethnic discrimination, and shows that individuals are more likely to discriminate against others when discrimination can be disguised. We show that individuals do not discriminate in contexts where discrimination cannot be plausibly justified. However, discrimination emerges in contexts in which discriminatory behavior can be attributed to conformity to social or moral norms. Chapter 5 explores gender differences in preferences for competitiveness, which have been suggested to partly account for the relative lack of success of women in many sectors of the labor market. We introduce a novel measure that captures the extent of competitiveness. We find that the gender gap in competitiveness is larger than what had been documented before, with strikingly lower ratios of women at the top of the competitiveness distribution.

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Discrimination written by Emily P. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays examining labour market discrimination, the impact of laws and policies, the treatment of children compared to the elderly, discrimination within the family, the economic underclass, and the treatment of minority members of society.

Download or read book The Economics of Discrimination written by Gary S. Becker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Gary S. Becker's The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining. Mr. Becker's work confronts the economic effects of discrimination in the market place because of race, religion, sex, color, social class, personality, or other non-pecuniary considerations. He demonstrates that discrimination in the market place by any group reduces their own real incomes as well as those of the minority. The original edition of The Economics of Discrimination was warmly received by economists, sociologists, and psychologists alike for focusing the discerning eye of economic analysis upon a vital social problem—discrimination in the market place. "This is an unusual book; not only is it filled with ingenious theorizing but the implications of the theory are boldly confronted with facts. . . . The intimate relation of the theory and observation has resulted in a book of great vitality on a subject whose interest and importance are obvious."—M.W. Reder, American Economic Review "The author's solution to the problem of measuring the motive behind actual discrimination is something of a tour de force. . . . Sociologists in the field of race relations will wish to read this book."—Karl Schuessler, American Sociological Review

Download or read book Essays in Behavioral and Development Economics written by Gautam Rao and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three essays in empirical economics. These essays are united by three clear intellectual and methodological themes. First, each essay attempts to bring theories and insights from psychology to bear on open questions in economics, with a focus on topics of importance to developing countries. Second, they use experiments - both randomized field experiments and natural experiments - to test economic theory. Finally, each paper attempts to measure economically important but difficult-to-observe behaviors and preferences - self-control problems in Chapter 1, social norms in Chapter 2, and discrimination and fairness preferences in Chapter 3. In chapter one, coauthors Liang Bai, Edward Miguel, Ben Handel and I construct a simple model of preventive health behavior under present biased time preferences, and show how beliefs about future time preferences (sophistication, partial naivete, and perfect naivete) affect how agents are predicted to use, under-use or misuse different types of commitment contracts. We propose a type of commitment contract that has the potential to benefit not just sophisticated present biased agents, but also naifs. We conduct a field experiment focused on increasing the share of patients who actively manage their hypertension by visiting a doctor periodically. The experiment is closely tied to the theory, allowing us to estimate the key parameters of the model. In chapter two, coauthors Stefano DellaVigna, John List, Ulrike Malmendier and I ask the question: Why do people vote? We argue that social image plays a significant role in explaining turnout. People vote because others will ask. The expectation of being asked motivates turnout if individuals derive pride from telling others that they voted, or feel shame from admitting that they did not vote, provided that lying is costly. We design a field experiment to estimate the effect of social image concerns on voting. In a door-to-door survey about election turnout, we experimentally vary (i) the informational content and use of a flyer pre-announcing the survey, (ii) the duration and payment for the survey, and (iii) the incentives to lie about past voting. Our estimates suggest significant social image concerns. For a plausible range of lying costs, we estimate the monetary value of voting because others will ask to be in the range of $5-$15 for the 2010 Congressional election. In a complementary get-out-the-vote experiment, we inform potential voters before the election that we will ask them later whether they voted. We find suggestive evidence that the treatment increases turnout. In chapter three, I exploit a natural experiment in India to identify how mixing rich and poor students in schools affects social preferences and behaviors. A policy change in 2007 forced many private schools in Delhi to meet a quota of poor children in admissions. This led to a sharp increase in the presence of poor children in new cohorts in those schools, but not in older cohorts or in other schools. Exploiting this variation, I study impacts on three classes of outcomes: (i) prosocial behavior, (ii) discrimination, and (iii) academic outcomes. First, I find that having poor classmates makes wealthy students more prosocial. In particular, they become more likely to volunteer for a charity at school. Second, having poor classmates makes wealthy students discriminate less against poor children, measured by their teammate choice in an sports contest. Third, I find marginally significant negative effects on test scores in English, but no effect on Hindi or Math. Overall, I conclude that mixing in schools had substantial positive effects on the social behaviors of wealthy students, at the cost of negative but arguably modest impacts on academic achievement. To shed light on mechanisms, I exploit administrative records on the idiosyncratic assignment of students to study groups and find that the effects on social behaviors are largely driven by personal interactions between wealthy and poor students, rather than by changes in teacher behavior or curriculum.

Download or read book The Economic Approach to Human Behavior written by Gary S. Becker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this approach to various aspects of human activity, including social interactions; crime and punishment; marriage, fertility, and the family; and "irrational" behavior. "Becker's highly regarded work in economics is most notable in the imaginative application of 'the economic approach' to a surprising breadth of human activity. Becker's essays over the years have inevitably inspired a surge of research activity in testimony to the richness of his insights into human activities lying 'outside' the traditionally conceived economic markets. Perhaps no economist in our time has contributed more to expanding the area of interest to economists than Becker, and a number of these thought-provoking essays are collected in this book."—Choice Gary Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1992.

Download or read book Essays of the Behavioral Economics of Social Inequalities written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Discrimination in the Labor Market written by Marvin Martin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Five Essays in Experimental Economics written by Asri Özgümüs and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of five essays contributing to a better understanding of three fundamental lines of research in behavioral economics: trust and cooperation in social interactions, gender discrimination, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. All essays are novel contributions and based on the experimental economics method. In some of the essays, game-theoretical solutions are provided and experimental findings are related to behavioral theories....

Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Discrimination and Conflict written by Aniruddha Mitra and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inequality reciprocity sanctions and trust written by Gianandrea Staffiero and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Discrimination in the Labour Market written by Marvin Martin Smith and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Mental Illness and Belief Formation written by Matthew White Ridley (Scientist in economics) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 study questions relating to the economics of mental illness, while Chapter 3 contributes to the literature on the behavioral economics of belief formation. The first chapter studies why people who live in poverty are disproportionately affected by mental illness. Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Vikram Patel and I review the interdisciplinary evidence of the bidirectional causal relationship between poverty and common mental illnesses---depression and anxiety---and the underlying mechanisms. Our review shows that mental illness reduces employment and therefore income and that psychological interventions generate economic gains. Similarly, negative economic shocks cause mental illness, and anti-poverty programs, such as cash transfers, improve mental health. A crucial step toward the design of effective policies is to better understand the mechanisms underlying these causal effects. In the second chapter, I study discrimination against people with common mental illnesses in labor market settings -- one important mechanism through which mental illness may (indirectly) cause lower employment and income. In an online experiment, I find that people pay to avoid depressed or anxious coworkers in a simple communication-based problem-solving task---paying as much to avoid them as they do to work with the college-educated. A model of earnings-maximizing statistical discrimination with correct beliefs cannot explain these preferences: depressed or anxious coworkers are equally productive when exogenously assigned. Instead, I find evidence that discrimination is driven by incorrect beliefs about such coworkers as well as an increase in costly effort when working with them. A major motivation for tackling discrimination is often to encourage revelation of mental illness (thereby perhaps improving access to treatment or support); however, I find that people pay to hide mental illness in my setting even when insulated from rejection or any financial consequence of discrimination. In the third chapter of my thesis, John Conlon, Malavika Mani, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach and I study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover information themselves or must instead learn what their spouse discovered via a discussion. Women treat their `own' and their husband's information the same. In sharp contrast, men's beliefs respond less than half as much to information that was discovered by their wife. This is not due to a lack of communication: husbands put less weight on their wife's signals even when perfectly informed of them. In a second experiment, when paired with mixed- and same-gender strangers, both men and women heavily discount their teammate's information relative to their own. We conclude that people have a tendency to underweight others' information relative to their own. The marital context creates a countervailing force for women, resulting in a gender difference in learning (only) in the household.

Download or read book Essays on the Determinants of Wage Inequality written by Sophie Cetre and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Behavioral Economics written by Bernard Richter and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: