The impact of affirmative action: Evidence from a cross-country laboratory experiment

The paper is partially supported by a grant from the Humanities and Social Science Research Fund of the Ministry of Education (No. 11YJCZH055) in China. We thanks Nick Feltovich, Robert Hoffmann, Pedro Rey-Biel, Marie Claire Villeval, Frank Vella, Roy Bailey, Sen Xue and Mike Shannon and three anonymous referees for very helpful comments. We also thank participants at the 2014 Asia Pacific Economic Science Association meeting in Auckland and at the 9th Nordic Behavioural Economics Conference in Aarhus for helpful discussions.