There exists remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the … if the weight gap between black and white women is to decline. -- obesity ; decomposition …

understand bias and discrimination as mechanisms and potential points of intervention. …

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 …

that it may be due to statistical discrimination. …

attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …

businesses. Discrimination against women is widespread and overt: about half (51%) of establishments directly admit that they … randomization technique, we can rule out that discrimination against women is heavily stigmatized in Egypt, meaning that …We study discrimination in hiring and its associated outcomes for the discriminators using a unique survey of Egyptian …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …