century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind …

eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market …. These differentials are consistent with both statistical and taste-based discrimination. To identify the source of the …

discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from women in the same way differences between other groups in work and … married women began to enter the labor force in large numbers. It is difficult to rationalize sex segregation and 'wage … housing have been explained. Rather, this paper constructs a 'pollution' theory model of discrimination in which new female …

This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably … matched pairs of men and women applied for jobs as waiters and waitresses at 65 restaurants in Philadelphia. The 130 … applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The results provide statistically significant evidence of sex discrimination …

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …

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