History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … only minimal assumptions about the ex ante importance of race. …

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …

cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …

with at least one black member. Using the Anwar-Fang rank order test, we find strong statistical evidence of discrimination … on the basis of defendant race. These results are consistent with racial prejudice on the part of white jurors, black …. Simulations of the model suggest that jurors of each race are heterogeneous in the standards of evidence that they require to …

discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory … latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation …, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this disjuncture to two sources. What is missing in the social science view …