Contemporary scholars view race as a constructed social category, not a biological fact. Yet
most empirical discrimination research treats race no differently than other individual …

As in economics, racial discrimination has long been a focus of research in sociology. Yet
the disciplines traditionally have differed in how they approach the topic. While some studies …

We discuss research on discrimination against blacks and other racial minorities in labor
market outcomes, highlighting fundamental challenges faced by empirical work in this area …

The phenomenon of statistical discrimination may take on increasing importance in the
future as “traditional” prejudice-based discrimination slowly fades. This article considers how …

Quantitative analyses of racial disparities typically rely on a single categorical measure to
operationalize race. We demonstrate the value of an approach that compares results …

Social constructivist theories of race suggest no two measures of race will capture the same
information, but the degree of “error” this creates for quantitative research on inequality is …

Previous studies ofracial inequality have relied on official statistics that presumably use self-
classification of race. Using novel data from a 1995 national survey in Brazil, we find that the …

Field experiments have proliferated throughout the social sciences and have become a
mainstay for identifying racial discrimination during the hiring process. To date, field …

Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social
domains has renewed interest in the possible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the …

C_: ancio, Evans, and Maume (1996, henceforward Cancio et al.) claim that discrimination,
measured as a residual from an earnings attainment regression, increased after 1976. Their …