crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …

crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … fouls are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …

's head basketball coaches. Women's head coaches of either gender earn about 50% of the base salary of the average men's head … coach's gender, thus prestige from men's sports, customer discrimination, and the preferences of athletic directors may … basketball coaches. Within women's basketball, female head coaches earn base salaries 9% higher than males. Estimates from a …

. The authors find that race/ethnicity matters and in a way is consistent with a model of statistical discrimination by …There is a growing literature investigating fan discrimination revealed in markets for sports memorabilia. Such … estimates miss the mark for two reasons. First, simply measuring race as a binary variable may be less insightful than an …

market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that … distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …

Past studies have only uncovered a limited amount of evidence regarding salary discrimination in the National Hockey … evidence may be more a reflection of excessive aggregation than an absence of pay discrimination. In the present article, both … is that salary discrimination based on team location appears to be a weak but pervasive phenomenon, more surely so in …

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it complements the many wage discrimination studies by examining exit … discrimination in the NBA using a decade's worth of data (the 1980's). White players have a 36% lower risk of being cut than black … white, and 5.5 seasons for the same player who is black. Second, the career earnings effect of exit discrimination in the …

The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social …, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face value, our estimates imply that … consistent with a search-matching model in which employers statistically discriminate on the basis of race when hiring unemployed …

"We investigate the role of physical appearance, in addition to race and sex, in the rate of discrimination observed in … looks is greater than that based on race or sex. The first two types of discrimination are in professional and unskilled … the selection process (mainly, education and job experience), our results provide better indicators of discrimination than …