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Discrimination in a rank order contest : evidence from the NFL draft

Gregory-Smith, Ian; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafeal - 2022

This paper examines discrimination in the NFL draft. The NFL is a favourable empirical setting to examine the role of … performance at a marque selection event (the NFL combine), we do not find robust evidence of racial discrimination in NFL drafting …'s career, even if discrimination plays only a marginal role in selection, there could be a large discriminatory impact. We …

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Eliminating discrimination in hiring isn't enough

Alston, Mackenzie - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)

While many firms have recognized the importance of recruiting and hiring diverse job applicants, they should also pay attention to the challenges newly hired diverse candidates may face after entering the company. It is possible that they are being assessed by unequal or unequitable standards...

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Discrimination in the formation of academic networks : a field experiment on #EconTwitter

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Bruno Ferman, Bruno; Sant'Anna, Pedro C. - 2023

This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …

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Race and NFL playing time

Keefer, Quinn A. W. - In: International journal of sport finance : IJSF : … 11 (2016) 2, pp. 144-162

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Racial wage differentials in developed countries : the variation of racial wage gaps across and within groups requires differing policy solutions

Longhi, Simonetta - 2017

In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and further generations. Eliminating racial wage...

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Incentives to identify : racial identity in the age of affirmative action

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2014

It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is … broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …

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Incentives to identify: a comment

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019

Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...

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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Schotte, Simone; Kim, Min J. - 2023

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy …

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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...

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