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 …

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …

We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy …

Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were … made no significant improvement to minority applicant outcomes. Clear evidence of statistical discrimination was found only …