Recent Contributions to Theories of Discrimination
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| author | Onuchic, Paula |
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| contents | This paper surveys the literature on theories of discrimination, focusing mainly on new contributions. Recent theories expand on the traditional taste-based and statistical discrimination frameworks by considering specific features of learning and signaling environments, often using novel information- and mechanism-design language; analyzing learning and decision making by algorithms; and introducing agents with behavioral biases and misspecified beliefs. An online appendix attempts to narrow the gap between the economic perspective on ``theories of discrimination'' and the broader study of discrimination in the social science literature by identifying a class of models of discriminatory institutions, made up of theories of discriminatory social norms and discriminatory institutional design. |
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| spellingShingle | Recent Contributions to Theories of Discrimination Onuchic, Paula Theoretical Economics This paper surveys the literature on theories of discrimination, focusing mainly on new contributions. Recent theories expand on the traditional taste-based and statistical discrimination frameworks by considering specific features of learning and signaling environments, often using novel information- and mechanism-design language; analyzing learning and decision making by algorithms; and introducing agents with behavioral biases and misspecified beliefs. An online appendix attempts to narrow the gap between the economic perspective on ``theories of discrimination'' and the broader study of discrimination in the social science literature by identifying a class of models of discriminatory institutions, made up of theories of discriminatory social norms and discriminatory institutional design. |
| title | Recent Contributions to Theories of Discrimination |
| topic | Theoretical Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05994 |