An extensive literature documents racial discrimination in housing, focusing on its
prevalence and effect on non-White populations. This article studies how such …

Disparities by race, gender, and other protected characteristics have been widely
documented in many important settings—such as employment, housing, criminal justice …

We develop a framework for difference-in-differences designs with staggered treatment
adoption and heterogeneous causal effects. We show that conventional regression-based …

We review the empirical literature in economics on discrimination in the labor market and
criminal justice system, focusing primarily on discrimination by race. We then discuss …

I review the growing body of research that either directly assesses the effect of Ban the Box
(BTB) on the employment prospects of those with criminal histories, tests for spillover effects …

Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted “ban the box”(BTB) policies preventing
employers from asking about job applicants' criminal records until late in the hiring process …

Abstract “Ban the Box”(BTB) policies restrict employers from asking about applicants'
criminal histories on job applications and are often presented as a means of reducing …

ABSTRACT Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted" ban the box"(BTB) policies
preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job …

We develop an economic perspective on algorithmic fairness. Algorithmic bias and fairness
issues are appearing in an increasing variety of economic research literatures. Our …

We show that lenders face more uncertainty when assessing default risk of historically under-
served groups in US credit markets and that this information disparity is a quantitatively …