Research

Working Papers

Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News

Why Volunteer?  Evidence on the Roles of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives  (pdf of firefighter survey available here)

Published Work

Discrimination and Neighborhood Effects: Understanding Racial Differentials in U.S. Housing Prices  Journal of Urban Economics, September 2004.  (note: This is a link via Science Direct.  If your institution is not a subscriber you will only be able to access the abstract.)

A Cure for Discrimination?  Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2007. 

Ladies First?  A Field Study of Discrimination in Coffee Shops With students from Winter Term 07.  Forthcoming in Applied Economics.  This paper has received considerable media attention.  Here it is in Slate, The Chicago Sun-Times, and on the NPR show Here and Now.    Here is a response to some of the comments and questions I've received.

Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude, and Letterman forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics