Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …

Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …

We study the cost of ethnic discrimination for the landlords in the housing market. There are no legal fines for ethnic … discrimination in the Russian market for rental apartments – hence we can observe explicit nationality-based constraints via … advertisements. After controlling on all apartment characteristics we find that ethnic discrimination is connected with a significant …

effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …

substantially lowered attrition rates for second- and third-generation Hispanics and Asians, ethnic attrition remains a significant … ; Asians …

capital. Startup capital and education alone explain from 65 percent to the entire gap in business outcomes between Asians and …

. A housing search model explains this result, showing that discrimination is worsened when landlords cannot evict tenants …

neighborhoods than their white counterparts and that this rent gap increases with the fraction of the neighborhood white. In …

This paper deals with the question of whether migrants in Germany pay a rent premium for apartments of comparable … quality. We find no evidence that having a migrant background is directly associated with higher rent. Migrants may … and statistically significant relationship with the rent. …