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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality

Singh, Manasvini; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A growing literature has documented racial disparities in health care. We argue that racial disparities may be magnified when hospitals operate at capacity, when behavioral and structural conditions associated with poor patient outcomes - e.g., limited provider cognitive bandwidth or reliance on...

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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A. - 2007

and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …

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Sex Discrimination by Sex : Voting in a Professional Society

Dillingham, Alan E. - 1991

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...

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Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes : A Field Experiment on Discrimination

Castillo, Marco - 2012

We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures … is the sole source of differential gender outcomes …

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