The nature and extent of discrimination in the marketplace: Evidence from the field

By John A. List. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment (2016, unknown): “5 See List (2004) for an experimental approach to statistical discrimination in another context, sports card trading.”
Do fairness and race matter in generosity? Evidence from a nationally representative charity experiment (2011, methodology): “List (2004) finds statistical discrimination in field experiments on sports card markets.”
HETEROGENEITY IN DISCRIMINATION ? : A FIELD EXPERIMENT * (2012, background): “…and gender remains an insidious problem, and its presence in the field has been rigorously documented (Ayres and Siegelman, 1995; Altoni and Blank, 1999; Goldin and Rouse, 2000; Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2004; List, 2004; Pager, Western and Bonikowski, 2009; Milkman, Akinola and Chugh, in press).”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, methodology): “By designing allocation, bargaining, and auction experiments, List (2004d) is able to construct an experiment wherein the various theories provide opposing predictions.”
Taste‐Based or Statistical Discrimination: The Economics of Discrimination Returns to its Roots (2013, background): “List (2004) implements an audit study with buyers and sellers in the market for a highly valued baseball card, and documents discriminatory behaviour.”
Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism (2011, background): “A notable exception is List (2004) who nds that experienced dealers are better able to statistically discriminate against minorities.”
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective (2020, background): “There is strong evidence of statistical discrimination in a wide range of settings (for example, on the market for sports cards, see List 2004; on the commercial sex market in Singapore, see Li, Lang, and Leong 2018).”
A field study on cooperativeness and impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons (2011, background): “Only a few studies combine laboratory experiments with field observations for a better understanding of cooperation behavior in the field (Karlan, 2005; Carpenter and Seki, forthcoming; List, 2004a, 2004b, 2006; Laury and Taylor, 08; Benz and Meier, 2008).”
Altruism, Warm Glow and the Willingness-to-Donate for Green Electricity: An Artefactual Field Experiment (2005, background): “List (2004a) also demonstrated that apparent discrimination of minorities in the marketplace can mainly be traced back to statistical discrimination, that is, different distributions of reservation prices among different subgroups of the population.”
The Behavioralist as Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance (2017, background): “Harrison, Glenn W. & John A. List (2004) Field Experiments.”