Chapter 18 Antidiscrimination Law

Handbook of Law and Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1387-1472

  Donohue, John J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antidiscrimination law and economic welfare; Discrimination; disparate impact; disparate treatment; profiling; statistical discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649336604     PISSN: 15740730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0730(07)02018-X     Document Type: Review

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