TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Herzog, Sabrina
AU  - Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah
AU  - Trieu, Chi
AU  - Willrodt, Jana
        TI  - Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey
        PY  - 2023/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16640
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16640
        AB  - Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on three different affirmative action policies. Our results rely on a population-representative sample from the US. We find that support for affirmative action is based both on self-serving motives and principled grounds (e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By contrast, in-group favoritism and socio-demographic characteristics play a much smaller role.
        KW  - support for affirmative action
KW  - self-serving motives
KW  - in-group favoritism
KW  - altruism
KW  - efficiency
KW  - fairness
KW  - discrimination
        ER  -