presence of fans, referee bias, travel fatigue, and home-court familiarity. We provide evidence of social environments where …

dissect two specific channels of discrimination: customer bias and managerial bias. To illustrate our framework, we integrate … the club are selected. The observed preferential bias at both ends of the draft incurs a substantial opportunity cost …. However, bias at the top end unduly affects competitiveness. Our findings provide significant implications for future research …