Discrimination and Poverty
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.
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Discrimination - CPI Research
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Discrimination: Conscious or Nonconscious? | Trond Petersen | ||
The Theory of Discrimination | Arrow, Kenneth | ||
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination | Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan |
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market DiscriminationAuthor: Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil MullainathanPublisher: The American Economic Association Date: We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We respond with fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers. To manipulate perception of race, each resume is randomly assigned either a very African American sounding name or a very White sounding name. The results show significant discrimination against African-American names: White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. We also find that race affects the benefits of a |
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Career Jobs are Dead | Peter Cappelli | ||
Stratification in a Dual Economy: A Sectoral Model of Earnings Determination | Beck, E.M, Patrick M. Horan and Charles M.... |
Stratification in a Dual Economy: A Sectoral Model of Earnings DeterminationAuthor: Beck, E.M, Patrick M. Horan and Charles M....Publisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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discrimination - CPI Affiliates
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Sandra E. Black |
Professor of Economics |
The University of Texas at Austin |
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Benoit Monin |
The Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Ethics, Psychology, and Leadership; Professor of Organizational Behavior; Professor of Psychology |
Stanford University |
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Steven N. Durlauf |
Steans Professor of Educational Policy |
University of Chicago |
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Susan Fiske |
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology; Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs |
Princeton University |
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Valerie Purdie-Vaughns |
Director for the Laboratory of Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind; Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology; Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on African-American Studies |
Columbia University |
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Discrimination - Other Research
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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany | Brubaker, Rogers W. |
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and GermanyAuthor: Brubaker, Rogers W.Publisher: Harvard University Press Date: |
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Punishment and Inequality in America | Bruce Western |
Punishment and Inequality in AmericaAuthor: Bruce WesternPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation Date: |
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Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States | Cecilia Menjívar |
Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United StatesAuthor: Cecilia MenjívarPublisher: Date: |
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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World | Castles Stephen and Mark J. Miller |
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern WorldAuthor: Castles Stephen and Mark J. MillerPublisher: Guilford Press Date: |
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Poverty and Discrimination | Lester C. Thurow |
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