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Measuring stereotypes in effort tasks: A multiple-price list approach

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  • Bajzíková, Stanislava
  • Cingl, Lubomír

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We apply a multiple-price list approach to the measurement of discrimination in an effort task: we elicit willingness to have an ethnic minority member in a team. We use an example of the Roma in the Czech Republic and test the measure on a sample of 100 students from the majority population. We also discuss the role of statistical discrimination, taste-based discrimination, and the contact hypothesis. Our results show small but significant mistreatment of the Roma. The choice to (not) have a Roma person in a team seems to be driven by tastes, while the role of statistical discrimination is rather limited.

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  • Bajzíková, Stanislava & Cingl, Lubomír, 2023. "Measuring stereotypes in effort tasks: A multiple-price list approach," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:soceco:v:105:y:2023:i:c:s2214804323000587
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2023.102032
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    Stereotypes; Roma; Discrimination; Experiment;
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    JEL classification:

    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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