This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the …

age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …Supply-side Social Security reforms intended to increase employment and delay benefit claiming among older individuals … may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …

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 …

This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that …

examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly … have been found to be the target of discriminatory behavior across several labor and product markets. Scholars have been …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action …

Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty …, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other …