antidiscrimination law across a variety of contexts including discrimination in labor markets, housing markets, consumer purchases, and … policing. The different models of discrimination based on animus, statistical discrimination, and cartel exploitation are … analyzed for both race and sex discrimination. I explore the theoretical arguments for prohibiting private discriminatory …

The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a …

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

Identifying the cause of discrimination is crucial to design effective policies and to understand discrimination … dynamics. Building on traditional models, this paper introduces a new explanation for discrimination: discrimination based on … consequentially discriminate based on these beliefs. Through a series of experiments, I show the existence of discrimination based on …

This chapter surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors … apprehending violators? A variety of extensions of the central theory are then examined, including: activity level; errors; the …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …