consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … from caste discrimination. Given the increasing share of professionals from a lower caste background, our results suggest …

and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This …This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … majority or minority names. First, we find that there is no ethnic difference in buyers' evaluation of rice quality. Second, we …

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 …

discrimination, and policy responses. Yet there is still a considerable lack of consensus on all three of these issues. I would argue … some evidence consistent with these explanations, this evidence does not rule out an important role for discrimination in … generating sex differences in labor markets. I also believe that the lack of consensus regarding the existence of discrimination …

This essay presents an overview of EEO laws designed to outlaw employment discrimination, as well as Affirmative Action … that occurred during the mid-1960's. On the other hand, it is also clear that discrimination persists in some parts of the … lags behind that of whites, and their noncompletion rates are substantially higher, minority students still seem to benefit …

frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between supply-side Social Security reforms and demand …-side efforts to deter age discrimination, specifically studying whether stronger state-level age discrimination protections … employment increases were sharper in states with stronger age discrimination protections …

discrimination by respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men. Age discrimination was reported in seven percent of …This paper explores the prevalence and consequences of age discrimination in the workplace by analyzing self-reports of … employer and less likely to remain employed than workers who report no age discrimination. The estimated effect of reported …

This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably … applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The results provide statistically significant evidence of sex discrimination … lower by about .4. These hiring patterns appear to have implications for sex differences in earnings, as informal survey …