Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

dc.contributor.author	Feld, Jan
dc.contributor.author	Salamanca, Nicolás
dc.contributor.author	Hamermesh, Daniel S.
dc.contributor.organization	Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-19T13:10:02Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-19T13:10:02Z
dc.date.issued	2014-05
dc.description	JEL: J71, I24, B40	sv
dc.description.abstract	The discrimination literature treats outcomes as relative. But does a differential arise because agents discriminate against others—exophobia—or because they favor their own kind—endophilia? Using a field experiment that assigned graders randomly to students' exams that did/ did not contain names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and some evidence of favoritism for the opposite gender. We identify distributions of individuals' preferences for favoritism and discrimination. We show that a changing correlation between them generates perverse changes in market differentials and that their relative importance informs the choice of a base group in adjusting wage differentials.	sv
dc.format.extent	41	sv
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/35795
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	593	sv
dc.subject	favoritism	sv
dc.subject	discrimination	sv
dc.subject	field experiment	sv
dc.subject	wage differentials	sv
dc.subject	economics of education	sv
dc.title	Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv

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