Discrimination and Poverty

  • Shelley Correll
  • Cecilia Ridgeway
  • David Pedulla

Leaders: Shelley Correll, David Pedulla, Cecilia Ridgeway 

The Poverty and Discrimination RG is charged with developing a regularized protocol for measuring the amount and extent of discrimination in labor and housing markets. It is increasingly clear that labor market discrimination, far from withering away, remains very prominent for many statuses and in many types of markets. However, because this research tradition is based on “one-off” audit studies and laboratory experiments, it is not possible to compare across studies and assess which types of discrimination are the most important or the most resistant to change. There is accordingly a need to build a standardized protocol for monitoring trends in discrimination across the various types of discrimination in play (e.g., poverty status, employment status, homelessness, economic background, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, incarceration status, citizenship, religion, disability). The twofold objective of this protocol is to make it possible to assess which types of discrimination are especially prominent and which types are growing weaker or stronger over time.

 

CPI Collaborators

Richard Thompson Ford's picture Richard Thompson Ford George E. Osborne Professor of Law
Stanford University
Claudia Goldin's picture Claudia Goldin Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Harvard University
Kevin F. Hallock's picture Kevin F. Hallock Kenneth F. Kahn Dean, ILR School; Joseph R. Rich Professor of Economics and Human Resource Studies; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Cornell University
Pamela Karlan's picture Pamela Karlan Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law
, Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
Stanford University
Mark G. Kelman's picture Mark G. Kelman James C. Gaither Professor of Law; Vice Dean; Jurist
Stanford University

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