Discrimination in Developing Countries

Pushkar Maitra and Ananta Neelim

No 2024-03, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this chapter, we provide an account of the discrimination literature in economics and discuss two widely pursued policies to tackle discrimination in developing countries. We present a discussion of the main classical theories of discrimination: taste-based discrimination and statistical discrimination and extend our discussion to the new and developing literature on norm-based discrimination We briefly discuss the measurement approaches to discrimination and alternative policies to reduce it. We focus on two main policy prescriptions: increasing contact between adversarial groups (the contact hypothesis); and legislating diversity (through affirmative action policies including quotas).

Keywords: Discrimination; Inter-group Contact; Gender; Minority-Majority; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 D9 J1 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02-01
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