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, can affect outcomes. We explore the economics of revealing type in a simple laboratory experiment to learn about the … underlying motivations for discrimination …
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and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior - in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game … and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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'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 …
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manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental racism). However, identifying discrimination in these regulations is …
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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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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 …
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We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point...
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We present evidence that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and … religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …
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, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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