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Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment

Lahey, Joanna N. - 2018

We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment …. Evidence from the CPS and an additional study supports the external validity of our experiment, particularly for female job …

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The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1964 : The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation

Collins, William J. - 2000

This paper traces the diffusion of fair employment legislation at the state level and evaluates the relative importance of various demographic, political, and economic factors in the promotion (or at least the acceptance) of the principle of government-enforced anti-discrimination policy. The...

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Task-Based Discrimination

Hurst, Erik; Rubinstein, Yona; Shimizu, Kazuatsu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Why did the Black-White wage gap converge from 1960 to 1980 and why has it stagnated since? To answer this question, we introduce a unified model that integrates notions of both taste-based and statistical discrimination into a task-based model of occupational sorting. At the heart of our...

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Systemic discrimination among large U.S. employers

Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications … quintile of racial discrimination responsible for nearly half of lost contacts to Black applicants in the experiment …

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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...

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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?

Card, David - 2019

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...

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Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from WWII

Aizer, Anna - 2020

The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap. We study the role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap. Exploiting variation across labor markets in the allocation of war contracts to private firms, we find that war production contracts...

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Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions

Arnold, David - 2020

We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the context of bail decisions. We show that the omitted variables bias in observational release rate comparisons can be purged by using the quasi-random...

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020

where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that there is a substantial penalty against Asian Americans in admissions … with limited scope for omitted variables to overturn the result. This is because (i) Asian Americans are substantially … predicts admissions extremely well. Our preferred model shows that Asian Americans would be admitted at a rate 19% higher …

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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination

Agan, Amanda Y. - 2020

Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment …

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