Is Chief Justice John Roberts Right? Is Pervasive Racial Discrimination in...
Writing the 5-4 majority opinion of the Supreme Court on June 25, 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts declares that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is no longer necessary to prevent voting...
View ArticleAs American Religious “Nones” increase in Numbers, Here’s Why it Matters…
According to the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey, the share of Americans who identify themselves as “atheist,” “agnostic,” or “nothing in particular” has jumped from 16.1% to 22.8% in the last...
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What’s in a Name? Yet Another Study Uncovers Ethnic Discrimination in America
In a field experiment described in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, S. Michael Gaddis and Raj Ghoshal sent out responses to 560 “roommate-wanted” advertisements in...
View ArticleMore Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the USA — This time in Elections
Just in case a friend of yours starts wondering aloud why non-Anglos are so whiny about fairness in the United States, you may find it helpful to familiarize yourself with a number of field experiments...
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Research: Protestant Religious Groups Perpetrate Racial Exclusion
Field experiments are an ingenious variety of study in which people (or the semblance of people) are sent into social situations. These people have been trained to act exactly the same way, and only...
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Black Male in America: No Help Here
Want to know what it’s like being a black male in America who needs help? Ask Uri Gneezy, John List, and Michael K. Price. These researchers completed work for the National Bureau of Economic Research...
View ArticleField Experiment Finds Racial Discrimination Again, this time in Airbnb
Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca, and Dan Svirsky of the Harvard Business School are the latest researchers to document that yes, racial discrimination in the United States of America is real and that,...
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