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Overcoming Discrimination : Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics

Chen, Yi - 2024

A common feature of historical episodes in which integration was successful, as well as episodes where integration was unsuccessful, is the aggravated harassment of the early pathbreakers who put themselves at risk by violating the previous segregated norm. Examples abound including Jackie...

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Non-Binary Gender Economics

Coffman, Katherine B.; Coffman, Lucas C.; Ericson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender …

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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding

Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the … United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National … definitive conclusions in the face of contradictory evidence on the gender funding gap. We conclude that access to high …

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Scapegoating and Discrimination in Times of Crisis : Evidence from Airbnb

Luca, Michael; Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rossi, Michelangelo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a DiD approach, we find that hosts with distinctively Asian names experienced a 12 percent decline in guests relative to hosts with distinctively White...

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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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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment and shifts in political power. Specifically, we...

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020

Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...

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Prejudice and The Economics of Discrimination

Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2007

's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … criticisms and extensions of the standard Becker model, including an argument of our own which, like some recent work, shows that …

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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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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?

Morton, Fiona Scott - 2001

Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer's willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers' ease in finding information affects equilibrium...

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