Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …

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 …

statistical discrimination. We adapt this theoretical characterization to develop a novel empirical test, the rejection of which … we interpret as evidence of taste-based discrimination. In doing so, we provide a theoretical foundation via which the …-based discrimination. We provide a proof of concept application using Census and NLSY-79 data, which suggests taste-based discrimination at …

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 …

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

three sets of results consistent with the presence of employers' political discrimination. First, several patterns in the … micro-data and an event study are consistent with a discrimination channel. Second, we conduct an incentivized resume rating … view employers' discrimination as the leading explanation behind our findings. We conclude by presenting evidence …