Technology has changed how discrimination manifests itself in financial services. Replacing human discretion with … algorithms in decision-making roles reduces taste-based discrimination, and new modeling techniques have expanded access to … human involvement in the development process, and their opacity and complexity can facilitate statistical discrimination …

The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it extraordinarily hard for the … legal system to know whether anyone has actually discriminated. To understand how algorithms affect discrimination, we must … therefore also understand how they affect the problem of detecting discrimination. By one measure, algorithms are fundamentally …

. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of "bridge" jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …

Discrimination has been widely studied in economics and other disciplines. In addition to identifying evidence of … discrimination, economists often categorize the source of discrimination as either taste-based or statistical. Categorizing … discrimination in this way can be valuable for policy design and welfare analysis. We argue that a further categorization is …

studies show age discrimination also plays a factor, especially for women. The paper concludes with suggestions for future …

discrimination, but it may also induce a reaction from individuals who were not acting in a biased way …

We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical … discrimination, in the context of bail decisions. We show that the omitted variables bias in observational release rate comparisons … due to racial discrimination. We then develop a hierarchical marginal treatment effects model to study the drivers of …