This paper tests for racial discrimination in the rental housing market using matched pair audits conducted via e-mail for rental units advertised on-line. We reveal home-seekers race to landlords by sending e-mails from names with a high likelihood of association with either whites or African...

Rental housing discrimination can take many forms. The most visible potential result of discrimination is the segregation of neighborhoods by race and ethnicity. The more subtle form of discrimination examined in this study is to charge different prices to different groups. This form of...

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...