Bayesian Bigot? Statistical Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Employer Decision Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9769858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Devah Pager (Princeton University, corresponding author), Diana L Karafin (The Ohio State University), Diana Karafin (The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 621 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-93 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716208324628 |
| PMID | 20686633 |
| PMCID | PMC2914345 |
| OpenAlex | W2090842295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 112 |
| References cited | 23 |
Much of the debate over the underlying causes of discrimination centers on the rationality of employer decision making. Economic models of statistical discrimination emphasize the cognitive utility of group estimates as a means of dealing with the problems of uncertainty. Sociological and social-psychological models, by contrast, question the accuracy of group-level attributions. Although mean differences may exist between groups on productivity-related characteristics, these differences are often inflated in their application, leading to much larger differences in individual evaluations than would be warranted by actual group-level trait distributions. In this study, the authors examine the nature of employer attitudes about black and white workers and the extent to which these views are calibrated against their direct experiences with workers from each group. They use data from fifty-five in-depth interviews with hiring managers to explore employers' group-level attributions and their direct observations to develop a model of attitude formation and employer learning
Attribution · Cognition · Contrast (vision · Demographic economics · Economics · Political science · Productivity · Rationality · Statistical discrimination · Trait · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
Kulturelle Vielfalt der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
Algorithmic injustice
Do updates of group-level and individual-level information of ethnic minority applicants mitigate statistical discrimination in hiring?
(Un)suitable Difference
Discrimination at the Crossroads? Evidence from a Factorial Survey Experiment on Teacher‘s Tracking Decisions
Statistical gender discrimination
Multidimensional Discrimination in the Online Rental Housing Market
Strategic discrimination and the emergence of systematic exclusion
Is Discrimination Widespread or Concentrated? Evaluating the Distribution of Anti-Black Discrimination in Judicial, Hiring, and Housing Decisions
The Impact of a Multiple Conviction Record on Hiring Outcomes
Kulturelle Vielfalt der öffentlichen Verwaltung
Who is the majority group? Signaling majority group membership with name-based treatments in multilingual contexts
No quick fix
Adolescent Cognitive Skills, Attitudinal/Behavioral Traits and Career Wages
Vertical Education-Occupation Mismatch and Wage Inequality by Race/Ethnicity and Nativity among Highly Educated US Workers
Stuck in Place? A Field Experiment on the Effects of Reputational Information on Student Evaluations
Skin Tone, Race/Ethnicity, and Wealth Inequality among New Immigrants
How Race and Unemployment Shape Labor Market Opportunities
La discriminación racial, étnica y social en el Perú
The Uneven Court Floors in the NBA
Attributions and Institutional Processing
Exploring culture through in-depth interviews
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
Mental illness stigma and employer evaluation in hiring
Roma women in Athenian firms
The Rise of Indirect Affirmative Action
Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Generational Disparities in Physically Strenuous and Hazardous Work Conditions
What is the future of research on medical decision making? (And is it bright?)
An Analysis of Certificates of Rehabilitation in the United States
Criminal Record Stigma in the Labor Market for College Graduates
Are Firms That Discriminate More Likely to Go Out of Business
Accessing the public workforce
The Persistence of Workplace Gender Segregation in the US
Race and Sex Discrimination in the Employment Process
Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional”
Changing narrative accounts
Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior
Immigrant disadvantage in the labour market
Occupational Segregation of Immigrant Women in Spain
Australian Parental Leave Policy, Employers' Cognitive Bias, and Mothers' Wages
Integrating refugees through active labour market policy
Sexual orientation and earnings
Capturer les effets de contexte depuis le guichet. Une analyse multiniveau de la fabrique des discriminations
Migration and sources of discrimination in a social context
Tenant selection in the private rental sector of Paris and Geneva
Foreign Accents in the Early Hiring Process
The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State
Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies
The Positive Consequences of Negative Stereotypes
When a Name Gives You Pause
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Functional Limitations Among U.S.-born Older Adults
Can corruption indices lead to statistical discrimination? Experimental evidence from a within-country setting
Passe inn og passe til
Det etniske hierarkiet
Etnisk diskriminering i arbeidsmarkedet
The Glass Ceiling and Relative Arrest Rates of Blacks Compared to Whites
Identifying Discrimination at Work
Labor market underrepresentation results in minority discrimination
Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom’s labour market
Moynihan Was Right
Employer aversion to criminal records
The Central Place of Race in Crime and Justice—the American Society of Criminology's 2011 Sutherland Address
Updating, subtyping, and perceptions of the police
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
The Edge of Stigma
Age Discrimination in Hiring Decisions
Constructing racial difference through group talk
Can the Government Deter Discrimination? Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in New York City
It Is All in the Eye of the Beholder
How Explicit Racial Prejudice Hurt Obama in the 2008 Election
Matching Candidates to Culture
Recruitment
Employment Lapses and Subsequent Hiring Disadvantages
The High-hanging Fruit of the Gender Revolution
What predicts employer discrimination? The role of implicit and explicit racial attitudes
Is there evidence for statistical discrimination against ethnic minorities in hiring? Evidence from a cross-national field experiment
Understanding Discrimination
Un salaire de la blanchité
Discrimination
The Weight Wage Penalty
The Signalling Value of Labour Market Programmes
Race, Criminal Records, and Certificates of Relief
Employment Application Criminal Record Questions and Willingness to Apply
Discrimination, Complexity, and the Public/Private Sector Question
Ethnic Discrimination in the Dutch Labor Market
Employer Decision Making
Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring
The Demand Side of Hiring
Racial discrimination in Britain, 1969-2017
The context of employment discrimination
The Motherhood Wage Penalty by Work Conditions
A Theory of Racialized Organizations
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market
Going Back in Time? Gender Differences in Trends and Sources of the Racial Pay Gap, 1970 to 2010
Statistical Discrimination and the Rationalization of Stereotypes
Courtesy Stigma and Monetary Sanctions
Stepping-Stone" versus "Dead-End" Jobs
The commensuration of pain
Motivated Bayesians
When Work Disappears
Stories Employers Tell
The Velvet Glove
Learning and Wage Dynamics
Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
How the Other Half Works
Declining employment among young black less-educated men
A Historical Note on Whites' Beliefs about Racial Inequality
Beliefs about Inequality
Cognitive processes in the revision of stereotypic beliefs
African American, Hispanic, and White Beliefs about Black/White Inequality, 1977-2004
What Has Economics to Say About Racial Discrimination
An Establishment-Level Test of the Statistical Discrimination Hypothesis
People's Accounts Count
The Mark of a Criminal Record
Men and Women at Work
| Unique citing works | 112 |
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| Citations per year | 6,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 110 |