lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our … weaker job performance among most groups of minority and female Affirmative Action hires …

It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence … annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home … exploiting a unique data set in which children's school records are matched to domestic violence cases filed by their parent. To …

response, employers invest less in workplace safety, which in turn increases work-related mortality. Drawing from a broad range … incidence of accidental injuries and workplace deaths …

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 …

Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly … experiments across several market and agent types to examine the nature and extent of discrimination. Our exploration includes … examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …

'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 …

media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to …Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether … 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We find that violent crime decreases on days with larger theater audiences …

attacks and crime-related shootings. The primary finding of our analysis is the importance of separating these types of … attacks and crime-related shootings. Analyses that ignore these distinctions or focus on a particular type may provide a …

-at-home (SAH), or “lockdown” policies. Using cell phone block-level activity data and administrative 911 and crime data from the … by police, and arrests made relating to domestic violence. We find that the SAH order announcement increased time spent … at home, leading to a decrease in total calls for police service, but a subsequent increase in domestic violence …