This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size....

Wage gaps between individuals of difference races, sexes, and ethnicities have been documented and replicated extensively, and have generated a long history in labor economics research of empirical tests for labor market discrimination. The most widely-used approach to test for labor market...

We provide evidence for the effects of social norms on markets by studying quot;sinquot; stocks - publicly-traded companies involved in producing alcohol, tobacco, and gaming. We hypothesize that there is a societal norm to not fund operations that promote vice and that some investors,...

This paper examines the claim that observed racial differences in rejection rates for mortgage applications, which persist after controlling for many relevant factors, are due to racial differences in short-run earnings stability, which has not typically been included in empirical tests. The...

We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled experiment. We find that, on the one hand, the access differences to job interviews by women and men are primarily explained by the expectation of a maternity by young women and, on the...

Recent legislation - Section 10A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for auditors and Section 307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for lawyers - has imposed on corporate outsiders certain duties to monitor unlawful activity within a corporation, and to report that activity to designated corporate...

In this article we make two contributions toward a better understanding of the causes and consequences of discrimination in credit markets. First, we develop an explicit theoretical model of loan underwriting in which lenders use a simple Bayesian updating process to evaluate applicant...

This is the prepublication draft of the quot;rights of studentsquot; entry of the Encyclopedia of the United States Supreme Court Macmillan, forthcoming 2008). It traces the due process, privacy, speech and equal protections rights of public school students by discussing several landmark...

Masculinities theory explains that masculinity is constructed in relation to a dominant image of gender difference, ultimately defining itself simply as what quot;femininityquot; is not. In the workplace, masculinities comprise both a structure that reinforces the superiority of men over women,...

This article analyzes the use of racial differences in loan default to test for mortgage lending discrimination, an approach whose underlying theory has not been carefully explored. The loan approval process creates a selected sample of loans. If mortgage lenders hold minorities to a higher...