Discrimination without taste: how discrimination can spillover and persist

Abstract We introduce coordination failures driven by beliefs regarding the presence of taste discriminators as a channel of discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination can persist under perfectly observable ability, when taste for disc...

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Main Authors: Rajesh Ramachandran, Christopher Rauh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-07-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13209-018-0179-z