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

According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for … discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should … therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination. We look at the natural experiment represented by the Brazilian trade …

We investigate the extent and underlying mechanisms of how race beliefs associated with applicants' names affect hiring … lower levels of education, productivity and noncognitive skills. Notably, this race penalty persists when considering only … variation in race perception for the same name and when omitting distinctly Black names. Conducting an incentivized hiring …

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

that it may be due to statistical discrimination. …

This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …

This paper examines discrimination in the NFL draft. The NFL is a favourable empirical setting to examine the role of …'s career, even if discrimination plays only a marginal role in selection, there could be a large discriminatory impact. We … performance at a marque selection event (the NFL combine), we do not find robust evidence of racial discrimination in NFL drafting …