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Understanding Affirmative Action

Annual Review of Psychology, 2006
Affirmative action is a controversial and often poorly understood policy. It is also a policy that has been widely studied by social scientists. In this review, we outline how affirmative action operates in employment and education settings and consider the major points of controversy. In addition, we detail the contributions of psychologists and other
Crosby, Faye J.   +2 more
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Redistribution and affirmative action

Journal of Public Economics, 2006
Abstract The paper develops an integrated political economy model in which individuals are distinguished by earning ability and an ascriptive characteristic, race. The policy space is a transfer payment to low-income workers financed by a flat tax on wages and an affirmative action constraint on firms' hiring decisions. The distribution of income and
David Austen-Smith, Michael Wallerstein
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Gradual Matching with Affirmative Action

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
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Kriti Manocha, Bertan Turhan
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Affirmative Action in the Balance

New England Journal of Medicine, 2013
To provide good care, physicians must understand the communities and cultures in which they work. An important way to ensure that physicians understand the lives of their patients and to reduce health disparities is to promote racial and ethnic diversity in the physician workforce.
Gregory D, Curfman   +2 more
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Affirmative Action in a Competitive Economy [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Abstract We consider a model of endogenous human capital formation with competitively determined wages. Discrimination is sustainable in equilibrium in the presence of two distinguishable, but ex ante identical groups of workers. An affirmative action policy consisting of a quota may ‘fail’ in the sense that there still may be equilibria where groups
MORO, Andrea, Peter Norman
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