The National Basketball Association ("NBA") has a long history of being the sport of the inner city and minorities. With this history comes the inclusion of street culture. However, in recent years the NBA implemented a number of policies that have the effect of distancing the sport from street...

This study re-examines the racial salary gap of National Basketball Association players by constructing a long unbalanced panel covering the 1985-1986 to 2015-2016 seasons. Contrary to the results of previous studies, we find that non-white players are paid equally to white players with similar...

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has been fertile ground for the study of discrimination due to demographic and cultural shifts in not only the teams but also the fan populace. The early research found evidence of black-white wage differentials and customer discrimination (Kahn and...

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...