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Chapter 12
Discrimination 2: Evidence and Policy
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Appreciate why it is very difficult to quantify the role that discrimination plays in explaining the huge gender, racial, and ethnic disparities that are observed in the United States.
Understand the principles underlying a procedure called the Oaxaca transformation that is often used to measure earnings discrimination.
Recognize the problems caused by the statistical headache known as self-selection bias.
Know how economists measure occupational segregation.
Recognize the broad trends in the economic experiences of both Black workers and women and the attempts to measure the part discrimination plays in explaining them.
Understand the main policies that have been crafted to stamp out discrimination in the workplace.