Law and Economics of Discrimination

This collection assembles many of the most important law and economics articles on discrimination. Together, these articles show the progress that has been made in the last twenty years in using empirical evidence and field experiments to assess the nature and extent of discrimination in different areas, such as labor markets, credit markets, education and criminal justice. -- Jonathan Levin, Stanford University, US

Edited by John J. Donohue III, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, US

Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction John J. Donohue PART I GENERAL 1. Gary Becker (1971), The Forces Determining Discrimination in the Market Place and Employer Discrimination 2. Kerwin Ko Charles and Jonathan Guryan (2008), Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Beckers The Economics of Discrimination 3. Kerwin Ko Charles and Jonathan Guryan (2011), Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress 4. James J. Heckman (1998), Detecting Discrimination 5. Kenneth J. Arrow (1998), What Has Economics to Say About Racial Discrimination? PART II EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION A Racial Discrimination 6. John J. Donohue III and James Heckman (1991), Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks 7. Derek A. Neal and William R. Johnson (1996), The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences 8. Dan Black, Amelia Haviland, Seth Sanders and Lowell Taylor (2006), Why Do Minority Men Earn Less? A Study of Wage Differentials among the Highly Educated 9. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan (2004), Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination B Sex Discrimination 10. Richard A. Posner (1989), An Economic Analysis of Sex Discrimination Laws 11. John J. Donohue III (1989), Prohibiting Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: An Economic Perspective 12. Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse (2000), Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of Blind Auditions on Female Musicians 13. Uri Gneezy, Muriel Niederle and Aldo Rustichini (2003), Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences 14. Kimberly Bayard, Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Kenneth Troske (2003), New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data C Sexual Orientation 15. Heather Antecol, Anneke Jong and Michael D. Steinberger (2008), The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital 16. Doris Weichselbaumer (2003), Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Hiring D Statistical Discrimination 17. David H. Autor and David Scarborough (2008), Does Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from Retail Establishments PART III DISCRIMINATION IN VARIOUS CONSUMER MARKETS 18. Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey M.B. Tootell, Lynn E. Browne and James McEneaney (1996), Mortgage Lending in Boston: Interpreting HMDA Data 19. John Yinger (1998), Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets 20. Andrew Hanson and Zackary Hawley (2011), Do Landlords Discriminate in the Rental Housing Market? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment in US Cities 21. Ian Ayres and Peter Siegelman (1995), Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car 22. John A. List (2004), The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field PART IV DISCRIMINATION IN CRIMINAL SENTENCING AND POLICING 23. Darrell Steffensmeier, Jeffery Ulmer and John Kramer (1998), The Interaction of Race, Gender, and Age in Criminal Sentencing: The Punishment Cost of being Young, Black, and Male 24. Shawn D. Bushway and Anne Morrison Piehl (2001), Judging Judicial Discretion: Legal Factors and Racial Discrimination in Sentencing 25. David B. Mustard (2001), Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Courts 26. Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, Sarah Bacon and Andrew Ditchfield (2004), Justice by Geography and Race: The Administration of the Death Penalty in Maryland, 19781999 27. Nicola Persico (2009), Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence PART V EDUCATIONAL DISCRIMINATION 28. Jonathan Guryan (2004), Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates 29. Rema N. Hanna and Leigh L. Linden (2012), Discrimination