TY  - JOUR
AU  - Price,Joseph
AU  - Lefgren,Lars
AU  - Tappen,Henry
TI  - Interracial Workplace Cooperation: Evidence from the NBA
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14749
PY  - 2009
Y2  - February 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14749
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14749.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Joseph Price
Department of Economics
Brigham Young University
162 FOB
Provo, UT 84602
Tel: 801/422-5296
Fax: 801/422-0194
E-Mail: joseph_price@byu.edu

Lars Lefgren
Department of Economics
Brigham Young University
130 Faculty Office Bulding
Provo, UT 84602-2363
Tel: (801) 422-5169
E-Mail: l-lefgren@byu.edu

Henry Tappen
Brigham Young University
130 FOB
Provo, UT 84602
E-Mail: htappen@gmail.com
AB  - Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur disproportionately among workers of the same race. We find that, holding constant the composition of teammates on the floor, basketball players are no more likely to complete an assist to a player of the same race than a player of a different race.  Our confidence interval allows us to reject even small amounts of same-race bias in passing patterns.  Our findings suggest that high levels of interracial cooperation can occur in a setting where workers are operating in a highly visible setting with strong incentives to behave efficiently.
ER  -