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 …

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 …

-generation immigrants and the second-generation consisting of the US-born children of immigrants. Continued progress beyond the second …-generation descendants of Hispanic immigrants often do not self-identify as Hispanic when they come from families with mixed ethnic origins …

in discrimination interacting with previously uncompensated skills can account for Asians' extraordinary upward mobility …Asian Americans are the only non-white US racial group to experience long-term, institutional discrimination and … extraordinary upward mobility relative to blacks and whites for every cohort born in California since 1920. This mobility stemmed …