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January 17, 2017

Costas Cavounidis on why racial discrimination in the workplace is still around

An interview at the 2017 AEA poster session

Costas Cavounidis is a doctoral student at Boston University. He sat down with the AEA to explain why he thinks racial discrimination in U.S. workplaces is so persistent, and why fixing the problem through policy won't be easy.

Discrimination and Worker Evaluation

African-Americans face shorter employment durations than apparently similar whites. We hypothesize that employers discriminate in either acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. We construct a model with a binary information generating process, monitoring, at the . . .

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The AEA interviewed select poster presenters at the 2017 conference in Chicago to discuss their research and the broader implications of their work. View the full list of videos.