Studying discrimination: Fundamental challenges and recent progress

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 479-511

  Charles, Kerwin Kofi ^a,b   Guryan, Jonathan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical tests; Statistical discrimination; Taste based discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051758754     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124448     Document Type: Review

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