understand bias and discrimination as mechanisms and potential points of intervention. …

Becker's model (1957) explains how the distribution of prejudice among the majority leads to discrimination of the … minorities. On the other hand, a more recent line of research suggests that the role of taste is marginal, discrimination being a … the French labor market to explore the causal effect of prejudice in discrimination. We use geographical and time …

The effect of discrimination on black-white racial segregation is studied using a confidential supplement of the Panel … Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Audit studies reveal that the rate of discrimination in rental housing is substantially … higher than in owner-occupied housing. Thus, a variable indicating home ownership is used to proxy for the discrimination …

discrimination to the black-white wage differential. The proposed estimation strategy is implemented using data from the Young … Physicians Survey. The results suggest that potential discrimination plays a small role in the racial wage gap among physicians …. At most, discrimination lowers the hourly wages of black physicians by 3.3 percent. Decomposition shows that consumer …

drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use … the absence of testing. -- employer drug testing ; discrimination ; black employment ; labor market outcome disparities …

results are consistent with taste-based discrimination …