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100			_aFershtman, Daniel and Pavan, Alessandro _928421
245			_a"Soft" affirmative action and minority recruitment
260			_aThe American Economic Review: Insights
300			_a3(1), Mar, 2021: p.1-18
520			_aWe study search, evaluation, and selection of candidates of unknown quality for a position. We examine the effects of "soft" affirmative action policies increasing the relative percentage of minority candidates in the candidate pool. We show that, while meant to encourage minority hiring, such policies may backfire if the evaluation of minority candidates is noisier than that of nonminorities. This may occur even if minorities are at least as qualified and as valuable as nonminorities. The results provide a possible explanation for why certain soft affirmative action policies have proved counterproductive, even in the absence of (implicit) bias. – Reproduced
650			_aMinority candidates, Minorities, Minority policy _928422
773			_aThe American Economic Review: Insights
906			_aMINORITIES
942			_cAR