TY  - GEN
KW  - equality
KW  -  procedural justice
KW  -  discrimination
ID  - heidok26367
CY  - Heidelberg
AV  - public
Y1  - 2019/04//
T3  - Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
TI  - Implementing (un)fair procedures? Favoritism and process fairness when inequality is inevitable
N2  - We study allocation behavior when outcome inequality is inevitable but a fair process is feasible, as in selecting one person from several candidates for a job or award. We show that allocators may be influenced by inappropriate criteria, impeding the implementation of a fair process. We study four interventions to induce process fairness without restricting the allocator?s decisions: Increasing the transparency of the allocation process; providing a private randomization device; allowing the allocator to delegate to a public randomization device; and allowing the allocator to avoid information on inappropriate criteria. All interventions except transparency have positive effects, but differ substantially in their impact.
EP  - 30
A1  - Schmidt, Robert J.
A1  - Trautmann, Stefan T.
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/26367/
ER  -