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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2023
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16640
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on three different affirmative action policies. Our results rely on a population-representative sample from the US. We find that support for affirmative action is based both on self-serving motives and principled grounds (e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By contrast, in-group favoritism and socio-demographic characteristics play a much smaller role.
Schlagwörter: 
support for affirmative action
self-serving motives
in-group favoritism
altruism
efficiency
fairness
discrimination
JEL: 
C99
D01
D63
J78
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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