Firms can increase the demand for their products and consolidate their market power not only by increasing user utility …

We find that landlords practice subtle discrimination in the rental housing market through the use of language …

. 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 …

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. …

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 …

This paper presents new models for aggregate UK data on mortgage possessions (foreclosures) and mortgage arrears …

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 …