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most citedRecent Contributions to Theories of Discrimination

20 citations · 27 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

econ.TH2026

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

Johannes Hörner, Paula Onuchic

We study a reputational cheap-talk environment in which a judge, who is privately and imperfectly informed about a state, must choose between two speakers of unknown reliability. E…

econ.TH2025

Misperception and informativeness in statistical discrimination

Matteo Escudé, Paula Onuchic, Ludvig Sinander +1

We study the interplay of information and prior (mis)perceptions in a Phelps-Aigner-Cain-type model of statistical discrimination in the labor market. We decompose the effect on av…

econ.TH2025

Optimally Dictatorial Committees

D. Carlos Akkar

I study the optimal voting mechanism for a committee that must decide whether to enact or block a policy of unknown benefit. Information can come both from committee members who ca…

econ.TH2023★ 2 cited

Disclosure and Incentives in Teams

Paula Onuchic, João Ramos

We consider a team-production environment where all participants are motivated by career concerns, and where a team's joint productive outcome may have different reputational impli…

econ.TH2022★ 2 cited

Statistical discrimination and statistical informativeness

Matteo Escudé, Paula Onuchic, Ludvig Sinander +1

We study the link between Phelps-Aigner-Cain-type statistical discrimination and familiar notions of statistical informativeness. Our central insight is that Blackwell's Theorem, s…

econ.TH2022★ 20 cited

Recent Contributions to Theories of Discrimination

Paula Onuchic

This paper surveys the literature on theories of discrimination, focusing mainly on new contributions. Recent theories expand on the traditional taste-based and statistical discrim…

econ.TH2021

Conveying Value via Categories

Paula Onuchic, Debraj Ray

A sender sells an object of unknown quality to a receiver who pays his expected value for it. Sender and receiver might hold different priors over quality. The sender commits to a…

econ.TH2021★ 3 cited

Advisors with Hidden Motives

Paula Onuchic

I study a model of advisors with hidden motives: a seller discloses information about an object's value to a potential buyer, who doesn't know the object's value or how profitable…