Sorting through Affirmative Action: Three Field Experiments in Colombia
通过在哥伦比亚的三项实地实验，研究平权政策对求职者申请行为的影响，发现吸引女性申请者的效果远超男性申请者的流失，且未降低前15%申请者的质量。
The use of affirmative action policies to promote female employment remains debated. Do affirmative action policies attract female applicants, and does that come at the expense of deterring highly qualified male applicants? In three field experiments in Colombia, we compare job seekers who are informed of affirmative action selection criteria before they apply with those who are told after applying. We find that the gains in attracting female applicants far outweigh the losses in male applicants. Moreover, our results indicate that affirmative action does not decrease the quality of the top 15th percentile of the pool of applicants.