Measuring trends in discrimination with field experiment data

Measuring trends in discrimination with field experiment data.

The passage of major civil rights legislation was accompanied by a large improvement in the economic circumstances of African-Americans (1), and the public consensus against discrimination has grown over time (2). However, the significant postwar progress of African-Americans appears to have slowed or even stagnated over the last several decades (3, 4). The slowing progress of African-Americans...

Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.

Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination, we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor market of New York City, recruiting white, black, and Latino job applicants who were matched on demographic characteristics and interpersonal skills. These...

Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment

This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. We send two similar applications to each of 528 advertisements for student internships, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of a callback by about 14%. Differential treatment is particularly strong and significant in smaller fi...

Gender differences in bargaining outcomes: A field experiment on discrimination

We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market; the taxi market in Lima, Peru. We find that men face higher initial prices and rejection rates. To explain the inferior treatment of men we conduct an experiment where passengers send a signal on valuation before negotiating. The signal eliminates gender differences and the response is shown o...

Measuring congestion in data envelopment analysis with common weights