@techreport{e2403dfd8161422e8a33f2b594f37fbd,
title = "Endophilia or exophobia: beyond discrimination",
abstract = "The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others—are exophobic—or because they favor their own kind—are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect market outcomes. Using a field experiment in which graders at one university were randomly assigned students{\textquoteright} exams that did or did not contain the students{\textquoteright} names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders{\textquoteright} preferences. We show that a changing correlation between endophilia and exophobia can generate perverse predictions for observed market discrimination.",
author = "J.F. Feld and {Salamanca Acosta}, N. and D. Hamermesh",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.26481/umagsb.2013026",
language = "English",
series = "GSBE Research Memoranda",
publisher = "Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics",
number = "026",
address = "Netherlands",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics",
}