Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics

Discrimination: Evidence from Psychology and Economics Experiments

Discrimination in the laboratory: a meta-analysis of economics experiments

Discrimination in the laboratory: a meta-analysis of economics experiments The focus for the Centre is research into individual and strategic decision-making using a combination of theoretical and experimental methods. On the theory side, members of the Centre investigate individual choice under uncertainty, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, as well as theories of psychology, bounded...

Experimental Age Discrimination Evidence and the Heckman Critique

* Neumark: Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697 (e-mail: [email protected]); Burn: Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697 (e-mail: [email protected]); Button: Department of Economics, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118 (e-mail: pbutton@ tulane.e...

14.662 S15 Labor Economics II Lecture 20

Many researchers have taken an “unexplained” or residual gap between male and female wages (or black and white wages) conditional on observables as evidence of discrimination. Although such differences in residual wages are consistent with discrimination, omitted variables are always a concern, and this is also a very indirect way of testing for discrimination. Moreover, as we will discuss, som...

Nber Working Paper Series Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination

Understanding whether labor market discrimination explains inferior labor market outcomes for many groups has drawn the attention of labor economists for decades – at least since the publication of Gary Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination in 1957. The decades of research on discrimination in labor markets began with a regression-based “decomposition” approach, asking whether raw wage or ea...