Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment
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- Alison L. Booth & Andrew Leigh & Elena Varganova, 2012. "Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 74(4), pages 547-573, August.
- Booth, Alison & , & Varganova, Elena, 2010. "Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment," CEPR Discussion Papers 7913, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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employment; discrimination; field experiments;All these keywords.
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- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2010-06-18 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2010-06-18 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MIG-2010-06-18 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2010-06-18 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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