TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dillingham,Alan E.
AU  - Ferber,Marianne A.
AU  - Hamermesh,Daniel S.
TI  - Sex Discrimination by Sex:  Voting in a Professional Society
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3789
PY  - 1991
Y2  - July 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3789
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3789.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
alan dillingham
E-Mail: aedillingham@smcm.edu

Daniel S. Hamermesh
Department of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1173
Tel: 512/475-8526
Fax: 512/471-3510
E-Mail: hamermes@eco.utexas.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -