Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus …

a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First …

) as a natural experiment, we show the opposite: discrimination goes in favor of females in more male-connoted subjects (e … discrimination by systematic differences in students' scores between oral tests (non-blind toward gender) and anonymous written tests … mechanisms likely to drive this positive discrimination toward the minority gender are also discussed. …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior … to show that classes in which teachers present a high degree of discrimination in favor of girls are also classes in …

exactly where taste-based theories predict that competition will reduce labor market discrimination. in economies where … the banking industry and bank-dependent industries, but only in states with strong tastes for discrimination. …

differences in men and women's pay and employment opportunities can be explained by discrimination or by differences in their …

This paper assesses whether racial prejudice and labour market discrimination is counter-cyclical. This may occur if … prejudice and discrimination are partly driven by competition over scarce resources, which intensifies during periods of …

a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First …