This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …

crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … fouls are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …

measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin …

power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using data from a chain of regional grocery …

implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit … men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One …

that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender preferences … from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …

Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects … the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender …’ and authors' gender. With substantial research showing gender differences in fairness, the results suggest that an ethos …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …