Fowdur, Lona; Kadiyali, Vrinda; Prince, Jeffrey T. - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2009
Newspaper critics' movie reviews are often used by potential movie viewers as signals of expert quality assessment. In this paper, we assess if there is any racial bias in these critics' reviews, and if so, what impact these biases have on viewer demand. To do this, we develop a dataset that...