, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …

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 …

There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …

A recent approach to testing for customer statistical discrimination involves studying price gaps between sellers from … a similar setting, testing for statistical discrimination against female doctors in an online health care market. But we … show that this kind of analysis does not provide evidence on statistical discrimination in this setting because doctors …