Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?

By Stephen Coate, G. Loury. 1993

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A Short-term Intervention for Long-term Fairness in the Labor Market (2017, background): “As Coate and Loury [21] show, self-confirming asymmetric equilibria also exist under this regime, wherein lower investment levels within the group with lower social standing are justified by firms’ more stringent hiring standards.”
Taste‐Based or Statistical Discrimination: The Economics of Discrimination Returns to its Roots (2013, background): “…others, and stereotypes arise at all; see, for example, Myrdal (1944), Allport (1954), Sherif et al. (1961/1988), Tajfel (1981), Fiske (1998); see Coate and Loury (1993) and Loury (2002) for work by economists on this same set of questions, as well as whether racial prejudice is more commonly a…”
Publishing while Female. Are women held to higher standards? Evidence from peer review. (2017, background): “In economics, theoretical and empirical research on discrimination tends to focus on stereotype formation and belief structures motivating discriminatory actions (e.g., Arrow, 1973; Becker, 1957; Bordalo et al., 2016; Coate and Loury, 1993; Phelps, 1972).”
Does Affirmative Action Work? Caste, Gender, College Quality, and Academic Success in India (2016, background): “Epple, et al. (2008) likewise find that race-neutral policy would 2 The economics of affirmative action is developed in such work as Lundberg and Startz (1983), Coate and Loury (1993), Moro and Norman (2003), and Fryer and Loury (2005).”
The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda (2005, background): “4Coate and Loury (1993), for instance, construct a model of a¢ rmative action in which employers required to employ more minority workers apply a weaker hiring standard to them.”
Does Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from Retail Establishments (2008, methodology): “Our main specifications also include a complete set of store effects, ϕ, that absorb time invariant factors affecting job duration at each store.”
Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, unknown): “As shown by Coate and Loury (1993), affirmative action can lead to employers developing "negative stereotypes" about minority workers that lower their returns to a given educational investment.”
An Economic Analysis of Color-Blind Affirmative Action (2007, background): “Coate and Loury (1993) develop a theoretical framework for analyzing the incentive effects of affirmative action in the labor market.”