age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …Supply-side Social Security reforms intended to increase employment and delay benefit claiming among older individuals … may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have ‘lost their bite’, we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …

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 …

This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that …

examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly … have been found to be the target of discriminatory behavior across several labor and product markets. Scholars have been …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action …

/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias. Our study investigates the efficacy and equity of college admissions criteria …

and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and … reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant …

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