Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …

Correspondence studies have found evidence of age discrimination in callback rates for older workers, but less is known … hiring of older workers as direct age discrimination in hiring …

Gendered discrimination based on age and disability is a pressing issue, because this discrimination can interfere with … the goal of lengthening work lives, especially for older women. In the United States, the Age Discrimination in Employment … Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit age and disability discrimination in employment, while Title VII of …

The question of the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on relative economic outcomes for blacks and women has … effects of these laws based on variation induced first by state anti-discrimination statutes passed prior to the federal … legislation and then by the extension of anti-discrimination prohibitions to the remaining states with the passage of federal …

with wage discrimination against women. In contrast, we find no evidence of wage discrimination against blacks. We estimate …

Legislation prohibiting age discrimination in the United States dates back to the decade of the 1960s, when along with … the Equal Pay Act and the Civil Rights Act barring discrimination against women and minorities, the U.S. Congress passed … the 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Many critical issues regarding the rationale for or effectiveness of age …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …