Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment … facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status … prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to …

We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic …

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 …

Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We … investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize … measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggests that ethnic discrimination …

matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria …

In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward … study, we perform a name categorization experiment in the United States that yields 56 names associated with six ethnicity … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination …

-Muslims, an ethnic minority group subjected to substantial labor market discrimination in Sweden, and more specifically ii …

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the … remaining 23 per cent. This in turn, suggests a lower bound for statistical discrimination of approximately 23 per cent of total … discrimination. The analysis indicates further that the 77 per cent are most likely driven by a mixture of preference-based and …