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. …

workers with the same (observed) human capital but different appearance (race): unobserved productivity (skill), search … intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …

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 …

-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …

-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …