The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets.

By D. Pager, Hana Shepherd. 2008

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Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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On formalizing fairness in prediction with machine learning (2017, background): “in domains like employment, housing, credit and criminal justice, discrimination against protected groups has been welldocumented (31; 45).”
Health Disparities due to Diminished Return among Black Americans: Public Policy Solutions (2018, background): “Unless a drastic change is made, Blacks and Whites will not similarly benefit from the same social and economic resources.”
Perspective taking combats the denial of intergroup discrimination (2012, background): “…in contexts as varied as automobile sales, mortgage lending, and physicians' recommendations for medical procedures (Ayers, 2001; Burgess et al., 2008; Schulman et al., 1999; Smedley et al., 2003; Turner and Skidmore, 1999; Williams et al., 2005; for a review, see Pager and Shepherd, 2008).”
Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country (2014, methodology): “Correspondence test studies have been used to measure discrimination in the labor market and real estate market by race or ethnicity, gender, age, physical attractiveness and social background in the labor and housing market (see the excellent reviews by Pager, 2007, and Pager and Shepherd, 2008).”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “…heartening that recent research in organizational behavior indicates that gender and racial diversity is optimal for improving team collective intelligence (Woolley & Malone, 2011) and that discrimination harms an organization’s economic performance (Pager & Shepherd, 2008; see also Burns, 2012).”
Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor (2016, background): “The outlook is particularly troubling for African Americans, who not only are disproportionately evicted (Desmond 2012b) but who also face considerable discrimination in both the labor and housing markets (Pager and Shepherd 2008).”
Statistical Discrimination or Prejudice? A Large Sample Field Experiment (2014, background): “11 See section IIB for the implications when applicants strategically reveal no information.”