Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation

By Christopher Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates, Daniel S. Hamermesh. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Referee Bias (2016, background): “Parsons et al. (2011) have shown that the introduction of electronic monitoring systems can reduce referee bias in U.S. baseball.”
Racial Bias in Bail Decisions ⇤ (2018, unknown): “…Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004, Glover, Pallais, and Pariente 2017), the credit market (Ayres and Siegelman 1995, Bayer, Ferreira, and Ross 2016), the housing market (Edelman, Luca, and Svirsky 2017), and in sports (Price and Wolfers 2010, Parsons et al. 2011), among a variety of other settings.”
Cultural proximity and loan outcomes (2017, unknown): “9 Parsons et al. (2011), for example, find evidence of racial bias in baseball umpires’ strike calls, but only in stadiums where their calls are not monitored, and thus there is no possible sanction to their biased behavior.”
Does Corporate Board Diversity Affect Corporate Payout Policy (2016, unknown): “match preference documented by Price and Wolfers (2010) and Parsons et al.”
Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles (2018, unknown): “Preferential treatment of one’s own racial and ethnic group ( in-group bias) has been detected in the analysis of the decisions of basketball referees (Price and Wolfers 2010) and baseball umpires (Parsons et al. 2011).”
Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination (2018, unknown): “Do umpires favor pitchers of the same race/ethnicity in making ball and strike calls in Major League Baseball? Parsons et al. (2011) Estimate whether in samerace/ethnicity pairings of umpires and pitchers, strikes are more likely to be called, and measures difference when there is more explicit or i”
Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem (2019, unknown): “For example, minority pitchers correctly anticipate discrimination by umpires and modify their behavior, resulting in downwardly biased performance measures 23 (Parsons et al. 2011).”
The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data☆ (2014, background): “voluminous literature studying to study discrimination include (Parsons et al., 2011); baseball et al.”
Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer (2017, background): “Professional sports data offer consistent and comparable measures of individuals’ short-run productivity (Parsons et al., 2011), which are largely missing for other occupations.”