skill demands may be a potent deterrent to explicit discrimination of the type we document here. We also find that firms …

their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …

We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to … reduce or eliminate discrimination. Specifically, we use plant- and firm-level data to examine the relationships between … sex discrimination in wages in the short run in markets where plants have product market power. We also examine evidence …

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

discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by … treatment (statistical discrimination). We demonstrate that these two views can only be distinguished using data on patient … minorities, while statistical discrimination implies that returns are equalized. Using data on heart attack treatments, we do not …