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...

In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...

Purpose – Research has shown that employers often disfavor racial minorities - particularly African Americans - even when whites and minorities present comparable resumes when applying for jobs. Extant studies have been hard pressed to distinguish between taste-based discrimination where...

In this paper we show that findings of an apparently instable popularity function of U.S. presidents, as reported in the previous literature, are likely the consequence of the common use of linear estimation techniques. Employing Penalized Spline Smoothing in the context of Additive Mixed Models...