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The incentive effects of affirmative action in a real-effort tournament / Calsamiglia, Caterina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Franke, Jörg (Technische Universität Dortmund. Department of Economics and Social Science) ; Rey-Biel, Pedro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica)
Affirmative-action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who have a disadvantage they cannot be held responsible for. Critics argue that they distort incentives, resulting in lower individual performance, and that the selected pool of tournament winners may be inefficient. [...]
Barcelona : Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, 2009 (Barcelona GSE Working Paper Series ; 404)

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Does affirmative action reduce effort incentives? A contest game analysis / Franke, Jörg ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica ; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica
In this paper a contest game with heterogeneous players is analyzed in which heterogeneity could be the consequence of past discrimination. Based on the normative perception of the heterogeneity there are two policy options to tackle this heterogeneity: either it is ignored and the contestants are treated equally, or affirmative action is implemented which compensates discriminated players. [...]
2007 (Working papers ; 711.07)

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