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 …

discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … time on younger black resumes, suggesting they use negative heuristics or taste-based discrimination. Screeners demonstrate … levels-based statistical discrimination, believing that younger black applicants have worse computer skills and more gaps in …

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 …

There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

in discrimination interacting with previously uncompensated skills can account for Asians' extraordinary upward mobility …Asian Americans are the only non-white US racial group to experience long-term, institutional discrimination and … extraordinary upward mobility relative to blacks and whites for every cohort born in California since 1920. This mobility stemmed …

, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests …-arriving first generation immigrants perform better than do second generation immigrants, and second generation immigrants perform … better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students …

Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of the later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective … self-identify as Hispanic despite having ancestors who were immigrants from a Spanish-speaking country). Analyzing 2003 … immigrants relative to their Asian counterparts …

's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …