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

We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment …. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated …

We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of … respondents an audiovisual presentation about the recipients. The experiment yields three main findings. First, we find …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms' underlying gender preferences … from firms' propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …

-science and engineering fields as a comparison group. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that …

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 …