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. …

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

scaffolding erected many years earlier. Using a novel within race decomposition we provide evidence that past institutions …

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some …

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 … convict and that both black and white defendants would prefer to face jurors of the same race. …

, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this disjuncture to two sources. What is missing in the social science view … discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory …

previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …