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Firms can increase the demand for their products and consolidate their market power not only by increasing user utility …
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We find that landlords practice subtle discrimination in the rental housing market through the use of language …
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. The authors find that race/ethnicity matters and in a way is consistent with a model of statistical discrimination by … on researcher race/ethnicity assessment. The authors provide an estimation framework using continuous, market participant … reports of race/ethnicity. The results show that past race/ethnicity results in card markets suffer from errors in variables …
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We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … system. Further evidence rules out post-release discrimination. We propose different hypotheses to account for the evidence. …
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The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences … are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …
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In this chapter we present an overview of the history of racial differences in schooling in the United States. We present basic data on literacy, school attendance, educational attainment, various measures of school quality, and the returns to schooling. Then, in the context of a simple model of...
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This paper presents new models for aggregate UK data on mortgage possessions (foreclosures) and mortgage arrears …
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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research that relates policy changes to race and gender differentials, including anti-discrimination policy. The chapter …This chapter summarizes recent research in economics that investigates differentials by race and gender in the labor … market. We start with a statistical overview of the trends in labor market outcomes by race, gender and Hispanic origin …
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