This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …

crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …

crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … fouls are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …

's head basketball coaches. Women's head coaches of either gender earn about 50% of the base salary of the average men's head … coach's gender, thus prestige from men's sports, customer discrimination, and the preferences of athletic directors may … basketball coaches. Within women's basketball, female head coaches earn base salaries 9% higher than males. Estimates from a …

The effects of race on the probability of former Major League Baseball players becoming managers are analyzed using …

. The authors find that race/ethnicity matters and in a way is consistent with a model of statistical discrimination by …There is a growing literature investigating fan discrimination revealed in markets for sports memorabilia. Such … estimates miss the mark for two reasons. First, simply measuring race as a binary variable may be less insightful than an …

satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the 2010 National Survey of College Graduates to examine the relation … between job satisfaction and race and ethnicity among Asian, black, Hispanic/Latino, and white workers. Overall job …

, which makes this a distinguished result from other studies. Moreover, contrary to the gap in gender, which is due to the … compensation characteristics of individuals only (discrimination), income differentials between regions and races also occur from …