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There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …
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By constraining an individual's choice during a search, housing discrimination distorts sorting decisions away from … constraints imposed by discrimination in the rental housing market. Results from experiments conducted in five cities show that … key neighborhood amenities are associated with higher levels of discrimination. Results from the structural model indicate …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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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 … due to racial discrimination. We then develop a hierarchical marginal treatment effects model to study the drivers of …
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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 …
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We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …
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Housing discrimination is illegal. However, paired-tester audit experiments have revealed evidence of discrimination in … Discrimination Study and micro-level data on key attributes of neighborhoods in 28 US cities, we find strong evidence of … discrimination in the characteristics of neighborhoods towards which individuals are steered. Conditional upon the characteristics of …
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State and local policies increasingly restrict employers' access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks. Employers may thus still want to ask about a job applicant's criminal record later in the hiring process or...
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We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the …
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We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We respond with fictitious resumes … very African American sounding name or a very White sounding name. The results show significant discrimination against …, interestingly, this effect does not differ by race. The amount of discrimination is uniform across occupations and industries …
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