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Sex Discrimination by Sex: Voting in a Professional Society / Alan E. Dillingham, Marianne A. Ferber, Daniel S. Hamermesh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dillingham, Alan E.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3789.
- NBER working paper series no. w3789
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Sex Discrimination by Sex
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1991.
- Summary:
- Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge their tastes. We study these trade-offs using a set of data on votes for officers in a professional association. The evidence shows that female voters are much more likely to vote for female than for male candidates, and that other affinities between them and a candidate have little effect on their choices. Male voters are slightly more likely to vote for female candidates, but their choices are easily altered by other affinities to a candidate.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 1991.
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