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Is Positive Discrimination a Good Way to Aid Disadvantaged Ethnic Communities?

In: Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action

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  • Thomas E. Weisskopf

    (University of Michigan)

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This chapter discusses whether or not policies of positive discrimination, such as reservations, should be deployed in order to reduce the social and economic marginalization of disadvantaged racial, caste, or other ethnic communities. PD policies giving preferences to members of such disadvantaged communities are likely to have significant negative as well as positive consequences. Are there alternative policies – such as class-based preferences – that could deliver similar benefits without significant costs? After reviewing the diversity of ways in which a race-, caste-, or ethnicity-based PD policy can be structured, this chapter concludes that the case for deploying such PD policies is strong if the policies are carefully designed to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs.

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  • Thomas E. Weisskopf, 2023. "Is Positive Discrimination a Good Way to Aid Disadvantaged Ethnic Communities?," Springer Books, in: Ashwini Deshpande (ed.), Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, chapter 30, pages 699-717, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-4166-5_44
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-4166-5_44
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