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Complementary Bias : A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination

Craig, Ashley - 2017

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 …

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An Empirical Test of Taste-Based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and Their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE During World War I

Moser, Petra - 2008

A significant challenge to empirically testing theories of discrimination has been the difficulty of identifying taste …-based discrimination and of distinguishing it clearly from statistical discrimination. This paper addresses this problem through a two …-part empirical test of taste-based discrimination. First, it constructs measures of revealed preferences, which establish that World …

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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination : An Identification Problem

Bohren, J. Aislinn - 2019

Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination … inaccurate statistical discrimination generates an identification problem for attempts to isolate the source of differential … of discrimination—to formally outline the identification problem: when not accounted for, inaccurate statistical …

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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? a Re-Examination of the Evidence

Neumark, David - 2016

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 …

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Mobility as Progressivity : Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity

Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - 2021

Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...

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The New Promised Land : Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000

Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2021

patterns of selective migration, labor market trends including reduced discrimination and the decline of manufacturing …

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Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action : A Survey

Fang, Hanming - 2010

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

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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?

Scott Morton, Fiona M.; Zettelmeyer, Florian; … - 2021

discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …

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On Fintech and Financial Inclusion

Philippon, Thomas - 2020

The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technological progress and increased competition. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale, and the use of big data and machine...

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Sorting or Steering : Experimental Evidence on the Economic Effects of Housing Discrimination

Christensen, Peter - 2018

Housing discrimination is illegal. However, paired-tester audit experiments have revealed evidence of discrimination in … Discrimination Study and micro-level data on key attributes of neighborhoods in 28 US cities, we find strong evidence of … discrimination in the characteristics of neighborhoods towards which individuals are steered. Conditional upon the characteristics of …

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