Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy …

Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively … mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to …-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. First, we observed that the measurement operationalisation …

This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …

discrimination against members of historically marginalized groups. These concerns are being expressed through Congressional …-oriented policies that may facilitate illegitimate discrimination or involve fairness corrections unlikely to be legally valid. Worse … statistical discrimination in the context of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Using instruction from the burden …

This paper proposes a novel empirical strategy to estimate the causal effects of federal "redlining" - the mapping and …

We study discrimination in prosocial domains against sexual minorities using a sharing (dictator) game in an online …

This paper examines discrimination in the NFL draft. The NFL is a favourable empirical setting to examine the role of …'s career, even if discrimination plays only a marginal role in selection, there could be a large discriminatory impact. We … performance at a marque selection event (the NFL combine), we do not find robust evidence of racial discrimination in NFL drafting …