Sorting through affirmative action: Three field experiments in Colombia
Sorting through affirmative action: Three field experiments in Colombia
The use of affirmative action policies to promote female employment remains debated. Do affirmative action policies attract female applicants, and does that come at the expense of deterring highly qualified male applicants? In three field experiments in Colombia, we compare job seekers who are informed of affirmative action selection criteria before they apply with those who are told after applying. We find that the gains in attracting female applicants far outweigh the losses in male applicants. Moreover, our results indicate that affirmative action does not decrease the quality of the top 15th percentile of the pool of applicants.
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Ibanez, Marcela
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Riener, Gerhard
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Ibanez, Marcela
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Riener, Gerhard
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Ibanez, Marcela and Riener, Gerhard
(2018)
Sorting through affirmative action: Three field experiments in Colombia.
Journal of Labor Economics, 36 (2), .
(doi:10.1086/694469).
Abstract
The use of affirmative action policies to promote female employment remains debated. Do affirmative action policies attract female applicants, and does that come at the expense of deterring highly qualified male applicants? In three field experiments in Colombia, we compare job seekers who are informed of affirmative action selection criteria before they apply with those who are told after applying. We find that the gains in attracting female applicants far outweigh the losses in male applicants. Moreover, our results indicate that affirmative action does not decrease the quality of the top 15th percentile of the pool of applicants.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 April 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 February 2018
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/479599
ISSN: 0734-306X
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