Discretion and Favoritism in Public Procurement
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023 This paper investigates the consequences of bureaucratic discretion in public procurement. I exploit a Hungarian policy reform, which allows a “high-discretion” procedure below a certain contract value At the threshold, I document large discontinuities
F. Szucs
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Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries
Social Psychology and Personality Science, 2023 Ingroup favoritism can represent a challenge for establishing cooperation beyond group boundaries. In a behavioral experiment conducted across 17 societies (N = 3,236), we tested pre-registered hypotheses forwarded by social identity and material ...
Giuliana Spadaro +4 more
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Perceived Causes of Career Plateau in the Public Service
Administrative Sciences, 2023 The purpose of this paper was to develop a better understanding of the causes of career plateau in the public service, focusing on 67 people who we determined to be career plateaued.
Sean Darling, Barton Cunningham
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Bureaucrats and Budgets in South Korea: Evidence for Hometown Favoritism
Journal of East Asian Studies, 2023 This article presents evidence that high-ranking public officials in the Ministry of Strategy and Finance in South Korea affect local budget allocation. Applying a regression model on a uniquely constructed panel dataset, I found that the growth rate of ...
H. Jung
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Investigating the Evolution of Ingroup Favoritism Using a Minimal Group Interaction Paradigm: The Effects of Inter- and Intragroup Interdependence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We investigated the effect of structural interdependencies between groups (especially inequality), and interdependencies between individuals on ingroup favoritism in minimal group situations.
Kevin Durrheim +4 more
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IMPACT OF TEACHER-STUDENT FAVORITISM ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL
Journal of Social Research Development, 2023 This study aimed to explore teacher favoritism's impact on students' learning outcomes at university level. Favoritism is a common trend in classrooms as teachers give special treatment to a few students despite not providing their best work, instead ...
Khizer Ahmed Zaki +2 more
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Effect of Favoritism on Mental Health: Mediating Roles of Oral Negativism, Stress, and Willingness to Leave Jobs among Employees [PDF]
مطالعات منابع انسانی, 2019 Background and Objective: In an organization, the presence of favoritism instead of meritocracy can leave many psychological outcomes among employees. This study analyzed the effects of favoritism on employee mental health by considering the mediating ...
مرتضی مرادی +1 more
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Favoritism in the Federal Workplace: Are Rules the Solution?
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2023 We develop and test a more comprehensive theory of the sources and effects of workplace favoritism by drawing on a large, agency-wide sample of U.S. Federal Aviation Administration employees.
J. Pearce, Carrie Wang
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Significance Incidental similarities (e.g., sharing a name) can cause people to feel affinity toward each other, which can thus engender preferential treatment. This favoritism becomes problematic when it leads people to cross legal or ethical lines.
Omri Even-Tov +4 more
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Gender Bias in Stem Hiring: Implicit In-Group Gender Favoritism Among Men Managers
Gender & Society, 2022 Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is related to the hierarchical social structure of gender relations in these fields.
Enav Friedmann, D. Efrat‐Treister
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