lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our … weaker job performance among most groups of minority and female Affirmative Action hires …

-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …

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 …

discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …'s (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics …

and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …