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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Labor and Demographic Economics: Labor Discrimination


2012
w17727 Verónica C. Frisancho Robles
Kala Krishna
Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch


2011
w17467 David Neumark
Joanne Song
Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

w17462 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Devah Pager
Jörg L. Spenkuch
Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages

w17453 Peter J. Kuhn
Kailing Shen
Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence

w17450 Kevin Lang
Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics

w17381 Robert Fairlie
Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos
A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

w17326 Jeff Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Cycles of Wage Discrimination

w17156 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Jonathan Guryan
Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress

w16986 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets: Problems and Solutions

w16928 Bryan S. Graham
Cristine Campos de Xavier Pinto
Daniel Egel
Efficient Estimation of Data Combination Models by the Method of Auxiliary-to-Study Tilting (AST)

w16888 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang
Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates

w16866 David Neumark
Policies to Encourage Job Creation: Hiring Credits vs. Worker Subsidies

w16702 Leah Platt Boustan
Robert A. Margo
White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

w16663 Julie Berry Cullen
Mark C. Long
Randall Reback
Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan


2010
w16626 Morris M. Kleiner
David Weil
Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies

w16509 Aimee Chin
Nishith Prakash
The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

w16448 David Neumark
Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies

w16382 Amitabh Chandra
Douglas O. Staiger
Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare

w16366 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

w16256 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination

w16045 Nicole Fortin
Thomas Lemieux
Sergio Firpo
Decomposition Methods in Economics

w15972 Jason Abrevaya
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)?

w15895 Melissa P. McInerney
Kosali I. Simon
The Effect of State Workers' Compensation Program Changes on the Use of Federal Social Security Disability Insurance

w15874 Steven Raphael
Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates: Challenges and Policy

w15860 Hanming Fang
Andrea Moro
Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey

w15853 Jennifer Hunt
Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

w15715 Brian A. Jacob
Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?


2009
w15564 Peter Kuhn
Kailing Shen
Employers’ Preferences for Gender, Age, Height and Beauty: Direct Evidence

w15206 Jed Kolko
David Neumark
Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

w15064 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

w15036 Philip Oreopoulos
Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes

w14969 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

w14749 Joseph Price
Lars Lefgren
Henry Tappen
Interracial Workplace Cooperation: Evidence from the NBA


2008
w14566 Ana Rute Cardoso
Daniel S. Hamermesh
José Varejão
The Timing of Labor Demand

w14317 David Neumark
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging

w14273 Ross Levine
Alexey Levkov
Yona Rubinstein
Racial Discrimination and Competition

w14203 David Albouy
The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000

w14202 Alberto F. Alesina
Francesca Lotti
Paolo Emilio Mistrulli
Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy

w14003 Petra Moser
An Empirical Test of Taste-based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE during World War I

w13972 David G. Blanchflower
Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

w13951 Peter Arcidiacono
Patrick Bayer
Aurel Hizmo
Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

w13935 Keith Finlay
Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders

w13926 Marianne Bertrand
Rema Hanna
Sendhil Mullainathan
Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

w13813 Leah Platt Boustan
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970


2007
w13661 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Jonathan Guryan
Prejudice and The Economics of Discrimination

w13665 Christopher A. Parsons
Johan Sulaeman
Michael C. Yates
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

w13464 Shubham Chaudhuri
John McLaren
Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

w13462 Leah Platt Boustan
Robert A. Margo
Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

w13219 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

w13206 Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers
Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

w13161 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Melissa McInerney
Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

w13080 Judith Hellerstein
David Neumark
Melissa McInerney
Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

w12897 T. Clifton Green
Narasimhan Jegadeesh
Yue Tang
Gender and Job Performance: Evidence from Wall Street

w12879 Christine Jolls
Behavioral Law and Economics


2006
w12691 Donna K. Ginther
Shulamit Kahn
Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001

w12651 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin
School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

w12369 Andrea Ichino
Enrico Moretti
Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

w12368 Justin McCrary
The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police

w12321 Francine D. Blau
Jed DeVaro
New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires

w12257 Kevin Lang
Michael Manove
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

w12174 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination

w12143 Jacob L. Vigdor
The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000

w12115 Catherine Weinberger
Peter Kuhn
The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

w12048 Joanna Lahey
State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act


2005
w11813 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality

w11732 Howard Bodenhorn
Christopher S. Ruebeck
Colorism and African American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South

w11712 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Changing Looks and Changing "Discrimination:" The Beauty of Economists

w11507 Patrick Bayer
Hanming Fang
Robert McMillan
Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation

w11481 Luojia Hu
Christopher Taber
Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

w11464 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Glenn C. Loury
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

w11445 Alan Krueger
Jesse Rothstein
Sarah Turner
Race, Income, and College in 25 Years: The Continuing Legacy of Segregation and Discrimination

w11435 Joanna Lahey
Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study

w11394 Orley Ashenfelter
William J. Collins
Albert Yoon
Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans

w11303 Jay Bhattacharya
M. Kate Bundorf
The Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

w11264 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang
An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence

w11213 Suzanne Scotchmer
Affirmative Action in Hierarchies

w11095 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Kim Rueben
Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

w11090 Derek Neal
Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?


2004
w10947 Nicola Persico
Petra Todd
Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita

w10865 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Kim Rueben
An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market

w10853 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence

w10842 Jonathan Skinner
Weiping Zhou
The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population

w10763 David H. Autor
David Scarborough
Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?

w10708 Christine Jolls
The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws

w10684 Stephen Donald
Daniel S. Hamermesh
What is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association

w10621 Martha J. Bailey
William J. Collins
The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s

w10522 Nicola Persico
Andrew Postlewaite
Dan Silverman
The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height

w10381 Li Gan
Guan Gong
Mortality Risk and Educational Attainment of Black and White Men

w10366 David Card
Alan B. Krueger
Would the Elimination of Affirmative Action Affect Highly Qualified Minority Applicants? Evidence from California and Texas

w10325 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

w10312 Edward L. Glaeser
Eric A. Hanushek
John M. Quigley
Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location: The Influence of John Kain


2003
w9962 Howard Bodenhorn
Christopher S. Ruebeck
The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

w9938 Roland G. Fryer
Steven D. Levitt
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

w9873 Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

w9853 Daniel Hamermesh
Amy M. Parker
Beauty in the Classroom: Professors' Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity

w9770 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo
Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

w9752 Howard Bodenhorn
Just and Reasonable Treatment: Racial Treatment in the Terms of Pauper Apprenticeship in Antebellum Maryland

w9449 Steven D. Levitt
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link"


2002
w9263 Joshua D. Angrist
Kevin Lang
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

w9133 Derek Neal
The Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women is Too Small

w9110 Sandra E. Black
Elizabeth Brainerd
Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination

w8985 Claudia Goldin
A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings

w8957 Howard Bodenhorn
The Complexion Gap: The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South

w8915 Claudia Goldin
The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender


2001
w8668 Fiona Scott Morton
Florian Zettelmeyer
Jorge Silva-Risso
Consumer Information and Price Discrimination: Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?

w8215 David Neumark
Wendy A. Stock
The Effects of Race and Sex Discrimination Laws

w8152 David Neumark
Age Discrimination Legislation in the United States


2000
w7732 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Gender Differences in Pay


1999
w7449 John Knowles
Nicola Persico
Petra Todd
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence

w7167 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Xin Meng
Junsen Zhang
Dress for Success — Does Primping Pay?


1998
w6784 John J. Donohue III
Steven D. Levitt
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime

w6496 Susan Athey
Christopher Avery
Peter Zemsky
Mentoring and Diversity

w5366 Jeff E. Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre

w6418 John Donohue III
James J. Heckman
Petra E. Todd
Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960


1997
w6321 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Kenneth R. Troske
Market Forces and Sex Discrimination

w6083 Ciska M. Bosman
Gerard Pfann
Jeff E. Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital

w5903 Claudia Goldin
Cecilia Rouse
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians


1996
w5626 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Kenneth R. Troske
Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions and Wage Equations

w5619 Richard W. Johnson
David Neumark
Age Discrimination, Job Separation, and Employment Status of Older Workers: Evidence from Self-Reports

w5460 Scott Smart
Joel Waldfogel
A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

w5456 Denise DiPasquale
Edward L. Glaeser
The L.A. Riot and the Economics of Urban Unrest


1995
w5124 Derek A. Neal
William R. Johnson
The Role of Pre-Market Factors in Black-White Wage Differences


1994
w4755 David Card
Thomas Lemieux
Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Differentials Among Men and Women: A Longitudinal Analysis


1993
w4521 Susan Averett
Sanders Korenman
The Economic Reality of the Beauty Myth

w4518 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jeff E. Biddle
Beauty and the Labor Market

w4365 David Card
Thomas Lemieux
Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials


1992
w4109 Michael A. Boozer
Alan B. Krueger
Shari Wolkon
Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education

w4106 Janet Currie
Richard Chaykowski
Male Jobs, Female Jobs, and Gender Gaps in Benefits Coverage


1991
w3789 Alan E. Dillingham
Marianne A. Ferber
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Sex Discrimination by Sex: Voting in a Professional Society

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