Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …

This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to … employees expect to be favored. The manager, who has no taste for discrimination, discriminates in order to avoid demotivating …

side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … find that aggregate surplus decreases when risk aversion is high. When risk aversion is low however, discrimination …

index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …