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 …

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known …, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together … with the Norwegian Football Federation. The federation sent an email to a random selection of about 500 amateur soccer …

Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers … have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows …

an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …

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 …

subsequent economic effects to those of other types of football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important specific injury, concussions, and compare its … understanding injury risk and severity and their resulting economic consequences, which has been overlooked in previous sports …

It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is … broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …

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 …