Discrimination in Latin America : An Economic Perspective
The chapters presented in this volume adopt a variety of these methodological tools in order to explore the extent to which discrimination against women and demographic minorities is pervasive in Latin America. In chapter two, Castillo, Petrie, and...
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| Summary: | The chapters presented in this volume
adopt a variety of these methodological tools in order to
explore the extent to which discrimination against women and
demographic minorities is pervasive in Latin America. In
chapter two, Castillo, Petrie, and Torero present a series
of experiments to understand the nature of discrimination in
urban Lima, Peru. They design and apply experiments that
exploit degrees of information on performance as a way to
assess how personal characteristics affect how people sort
into groups. Along similar lines, in chapter three, Cardenas
and his research team use an experimental field approach in
Colombia to better understand pro-social preferences and
behavior of both individuals involved in the provision of
social services (public servants) and potential
beneficiaries of those services (the poor). In chapter four,
Elias, Elias, and Ronconi try to understand social status
and race during adolescence in Argentina. They asked high
school students to select and rank ten classmates with whom
they would like to form a team and use this information to
construct a measure of popularity. In chapters five and six,
Bravo, Sanhueza, and Urzua present two studies covering
different aspects of the labor market using different
methodological tools. Based on an audit study by mail, their
first study attempts to detect gender, social class, and
neighborhood of residence discrimination in hiring practices
by Chilean fir. In a second study, they use a structural
model to analyze gender differences in the Chilean labor
market. In chapter seven, Soruco, Piani, and Rossi measure
and analyze possible discriminatory behaviors against
international emigrants and their families remaining in
southern Ecuador (the city of Cuenca and the rural canton of
San Fernando). Finally, in chapter eight, Gandelman,
Gandelman, and Rothschild use micro data on judicial
proceedings in Uruguay and present evidence that female
defendants receive a more favorable treatment in courts than
male defendants. |
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