Machine generated contents note: Part I Disparate Treatment -- 2 Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car -- Negotiations (with Peter Siegelman) -- 3 Toward Causal Explanation -- 4 Discrimination in Consummated Transactions -- 5 Legal Implications -- Part II Disparate Impact -- 6 Unequal...

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...

We examine the extent to which non-discriminatory factors can explain observed wage gaps between racial and ethnic minorities and whites, and between women and men. In general we find that differences in productivity-related factors account for most of the between group wage differences in the...

We examine the extent to which non-discriminatory factors can explain observed wage gaps between racial and ethnic minorities and whites, and between women and men. In general we find that differences in productivity-related factors account for most of the between group wage differences in the...

We consider the labour market for financial advisers in the US using a matched employer-employee data set over the period 2008-2018, in order to examine gender gaps and racial disparities in labour market penalties for financial misconduct. We first show that the measurement of labour market...