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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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

Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the … to the task of measuring discrimination, copious bibliographic data on the impact of academic research make possible … tests of discrimination in the editorial process. This study develops a test for possible bias thorn; with respect to author …

This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the … consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight key gaps in the literature and ripe … prevalence of discrimination, most notably audit and correspondence studies; it also describes several other measurement tools …

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 …