The question of the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on relative economic outcomes for blacks and women has … effects of these laws based on variation induced first by state anti-discrimination statutes passed prior to the federal … legislation and then by the extension of anti-discrimination prohibitions to the remaining states with the passage of federal …

with wage discrimination against women. In contrast, we find no evidence of wage discrimination against blacks. We estimate …

Legislation prohibiting age discrimination in the United States dates back to the decade of the 1960s, when along with … the Equal Pay Act and the Civil Rights Act barring discrimination against women and minorities, the U.S. Congress passed … the 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Many critical issues regarding the rationale for or effectiveness of age …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

"Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …