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Discrimination in Latin America - An Economic Perspective (Paperback, New)
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Discrimination in Latin America - An Economic Perspective (Paperback, New)
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While there is a strongly held belief that Latin American societies
are highly discriminatory, the economic profession has found
relatively little evidence for this perception, and until recently
other social sciences had prevailed in the discussion of this
timely and relevant topic. The development of new tools for
analyzing the economic mechanisms underlying discrimination,
however, has opened up several avenues for research. This book
presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin
America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on
social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation,
and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets
such as housing and labor. The techniques applied include
traditional regression analysis, experimental approaches, and audit
studies, as well as structural methods. This wide range of
analytical approaches leads to findings that confirm some of the
common perceptions regarding discrimination but challenge the
conventional wisdom in other regards In some instances the
long-held conventional wisdom may not hold at all. Latin Americans
do not discriminate more or less than inhabitants of other regions,
and the discrimination that does occur appears largely to stem from
lack of information on individuals a result of great interest in
colleges and universities that teach courses on Latin American
development both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Furthermore, this book s findings extend to the political arena, as
they challenge standard policies that have been ineffective for
decades. Finally, this book should be of interest to researchers,
as the empirical methods employed are at the vanguard of the
profession. In fact, in addition to the contribution that this
volume makes to the literature on discrimination, it also has the
potential to contribute more broadly to labor economics,
development economics and experimental economics, as well as to
Latin American studies."
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