The Economics of Discrimination

By Gary S. Becker. 1957

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The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics (2018, unknown): “…1991). didates to female candidates, even when the candidates are otherwise identical.Described by economists as a “taste for discrimination” (Becker 1957, 16), outright hostility against women might emerge due to several factors: conservative ideology (Paxton and Kunovich 2003),…”
Oppositional identities and the labor market (2007, unknown): “The probability 1 � m can represent the prejudices of employers who dislike associating with nonwhite workers ( Becker 1957 ).”
Striving for balance in economics : towards a theory of the social determination of behavior (2016, unknown): “These results are markedly different from those suggested by Becker (1957).”
The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization (2014, unknown): “First, increased competition induced by trade liberalization should reduce the scope for taste-based discrimination, a potentially important source of gender inequality in employment andwages (Becker 1957).”
The gender gap in bank credit access (2019, unknown): “…disappears after the second or subsequent years rules out the possibility that the difference stems from discrimination based on the lender ’ s taste (Becker, 1957), since we would expect that adding new information about the business would not change the perceptions derived from preferences and…”