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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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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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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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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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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 …
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This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that matches a representative sample of mortgages in seven large metropolitan markets between 2004 and 2008 to public records of housing transactions and proprietary credit reporting...
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statistical discrimination …
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