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 …

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 …

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 …

statistical discrimination …

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 …

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the …

potential limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination, which may bias their results. One limitation … that may bias these studies towards finding discrimination is the practice of giving older and younger applicants similar … finding age discrimination. We also study ages closer to retirement than in past studies, and use a richer set of job profiles …

Understanding whether labor market discrimination explains inferior labor market outcomes for many groups has drawn the … attention of labor economists for decades – at least since the publication of Gary Becker's The Economics of Discrimination in … 1957. The decades of research on discrimination in labor markets began with a regression-based “decomposition” approach …

We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We respond with fictitious resumes … very African American sounding name or a very White sounding name. The results show significant discrimination against …, interestingly, this effect does not differ by race. The amount of discrimination is uniform across occupations and industries …