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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Favoritism is the act of offering jobs, contracts and resources to members of one's social group in preference to outsiders. Favoritism is widely practiced and this motivates an exploration of its origins and economic consequences.
Bramoullé, Yann, Goyal, Sanjeev
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Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics? [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, 2015 We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group.
De Luca, Giacomo +3 more
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Favoritism in Organizations [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 1993 Objective measures of employee performance are rarely available. Instead, firms rely on subjective judgments by supervisors. Subjectivity opens the door to favoritism, where evaluators act on personal preferences toward subordinates to favor some employees over others. Firms must balance the costs of favoritism-arbitrary rewards and less productive job
Canice Prendergast, Robert H. Topel
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Ingratiation and Favoritism in Organizations [PDF]
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2020 We combine in the same theoretical framework two related phenomena that can be present in organizations – ingratiation of subordinates and favoritism of superiors towards some of their employees. There are three actors in the model: a worker, a manager supervising the worker, and a firm that employs the worker and the manager.
Vassili Vergopoulos +3 more
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Favoritism by the Governing Elite
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally.
Asatryan, Zareh +3 more
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The Development of In-Group Favoritism: Between Social Reality and Group Identity [PDF]
, 2007 This study examined how social reality restricts children’s tendency for in-group favoritism in group evaluations. Children were faced with social reality considerations and with group identity concerns.
Verkuyten, Maykel, Wolf, Angela de
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Evolution of in-group favoritism [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2012 In-group favoritism is a central aspect of human behavior. People often help members of their own group more than members of other groups. Here we propose a mathematical framework for the evolution of in-group favoritism from a continuum of strategies.
Fu, Feng +5 more
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Favoritism and Fairness in Teams [PDF]
Games, 2018 We experimentally study how people resolve a tension between favoritism and fairness when allocating a profit in a team production setting. Past research shows that people tend to favor their ingroup at the cost of an outgroup when allocating a given amount of money. However, when the money to be allocated depends on joint production, we find that most
Lu Dong, Lingbo Huang
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Favoritism Toward Foreign and Domestic Brands: A Comparison of Different Theoretical Explanations [PDF]
, 2019 Five theoretical approaches can predict favoritism toward domestic and foreign brands. This article applies a contrastive perspective to examine social identity, personal identity, cultural identity, system justification, and categorical cognition ...
Anastasia Stathopoulou +12 more
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On favoritism in auctions with entry [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2011 Abstract We examine the problem of endogenous entry in a single-unit auction when the seller's welfare depends positively on the utility of a subset of potential bidders. We show that, unless the seller values those bidders' welfare more than her own “private” utility, a nondiscriminatory auction is optimal.
Federico Weinschelbaum +3 more
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