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 …

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 …

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 …

-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 …

We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous move component … contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each …

countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …