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. These differentials are consistent with both statistical and taste-based discrimination. To identify the source of the … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …
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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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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 …
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A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination …, including higher rates of depression and anxiety, suicidality, and PTSD. Therefore, understanding the role of discrimination in …-binary people face discrimination in mental healthcare markets. We provide the first experimental evidence, using an audit study, of …
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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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underlying motivations for discrimination …
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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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