We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … time on younger black resumes, suggesting they use negative heuristics or taste-based discrimination. Screeners demonstrate … levels-based statistical discrimination, believing that younger black applicants have worse computer skills and more gaps in …

A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination …, including higher rates of depression and anxiety, suicidality, and PTSD. Therefore, understanding the role of discrimination in …-binary people face discrimination in mental healthcare markets. We provide the first experimental evidence, using an audit study, of …

differences. We argue that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap, in …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …

's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …

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 …