Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination … inaccurate statistical discrimination generates an identification problem for attempts to isolate the source of differential … of discrimination—to formally outline the identification problem: when not accounted for, inaccurate statistical …

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 …

Discrimination---differential treatment by group identity---is widely studied in economics. Its source is often …. This possibility creates an identification problem when isolating the source of discrimination. When not accounted for, we … show both theoretically and experimentally that such inaccurate statistical discrimination will be misclassified as taste …

Discrimination—differential treatment by group identity—is widely studied in economics. Its source is often categorized … possibility creates an identification problem when isolating the source of discrimination. When not accounted for, we show both … theoretically and experimentally that such inaccurate statistical discrimination will be misclassified as taste-based. A review of …