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 …

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 …

This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably … applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The results provide statistically significant evidence of sex discrimination …

workers with the same eventual performance, among both men and women. This may reflect taste discrimination. However, if … it is in these data), then these estimated differentials could reflect simple statistical discrimination. A test of … statistical versus taste discrimination and a test of statistical discrimination versus pure measurement error provide some …

reference to higher tipped minimum wages for restaurant workers, because of discrimination in tipping that is immune to equal …

with wage discrimination against women. In contrast, we find no evidence of wage discrimination against blacks. We estimate …

regarding the existence and extent of labor market discrimination against women and minorities, although views may often …

age. This model implies that age discrimination laws, which bar involuntary terminations based on age, discourage the use … retirement, age discrimination laws may instead strengthen the bonds between workers and firms and encourage efficient Lazear … contracts. We assess evidence on these alternative interpretations of age discrimination laws by estimating the effects of such …