Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …

There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

in discrimination interacting with previously uncompensated skills can account for Asians' extraordinary upward mobility …Asian Americans are the only non-white US racial group to experience long-term, institutional discrimination and … extraordinary upward mobility relative to blacks and whites for every cohort born in California since 1920. This mobility stemmed …

job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the context of three local minimum wage increases. Estimated spillover …

We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical … discrimination, in the context of bail decisions. We show that the omitted variables bias in observational release rate comparisons … due to racial discrimination. We then develop a hierarchical marginal treatment effects model to study the drivers of …

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

introduce a unified model that integrates notions of both taste-based and statistical discrimination into a task-based model of … occupational sorting. At the heart of our framework is the idea that discrimination varies by the task requirement of each job. We … in the racial gap in Contact tasks serves as a good proxy for changes in taste-based discrimination over time. We find …