discrimination
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Housing Discrimination Informs Racial Gaps in Pollution
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A large body of evidence shows that Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionally exposed to harmful pollutants. People of color are more likely to live near hazardous waste landfills, more likely to reside near contaminated waterways, and more likely to breathe air containing pollutants such as ozone. Scholars have named this phenomenon the…
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The New Housing Discrimination: Realtor Minority Steering
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2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act—an important victory for activists in the Civil Rights era—but this historic legislation did not eradicate discrimination in the housing market. Evidence shows that real estate agents today still steer buyers into same-race neighborhoods—a phenomenon where realtors show only selected neighborhoods…
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How Jurisprudence Encouraged Whites to ‘Reverse Pass’ as Black
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Remember Rachel Dolezal? An instructor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University and president of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Dolezal hid her racial origin until 2015 when an intrepid reporter unmasked her. A follow-up with her parents revealed the truth:…
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Paying for Prejudice: How Public Funds Are Being Used to Fund Discrimination in Schools
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With the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the United States Secretary of Education, the subject of vouchers has gained a powerful mouthpiece. Currently, 15 states and the District of Columbia offer some form of publicly funded tuition voucher or voucher-like education savings accounts to subsidize private school enrollment. Another 16…
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Renting While Black: Revealed Preferences in the Sharing Economy
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Evidence from a recent field experiment, based on data from Airbnb, demonstrates that racial discrimination persists on modern, online sharing marketplaces. Results indicate that guests with distinctively African-American names were found to be 16 percent less likely to be accepted by hosts on the site than guests with distinctively White…
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How Female Migration Can Reduce Gender Inequality
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A recent OECD study suggests that differences in the rates of immigration across gender are associated with socially-institutionalized forms of gender inequality, such as norms that restrict females’ access to education, family planning, property ownership, and labor markets. The authors study how these factors impact female migration and, in turn,…
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The Results Are In: Drug Tests Are Positive
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Could pro-drug testing legislation benefit labor market outcomes for African American job-seekers?
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Negotiating Your Way Out of the Binder
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What role does the willingness to negotiate for salaries play in the gender gap?