Pervasive Prejudice?: Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Pervasive Prejudice? by Ian Ayres This title confronts questions of racial and gender discrimination. In a series of studies, Ian Ayres finds overwhelming evidence that in a variety of markets - retail car sales, bail bonding, kidney transplantation, and FCC licensing - blacks and females are consistently at a disadvantage. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description If youre a woman shopping for a new car, will you really get the best deal? If youre a man, will you fare better? If youre a black man waiting to receive an organ transplant, will you have to wait longer than a white man? In "Pervasive Prejudice?" Ian Ayres confronts these questions and more. In a series of important studies he finds overwhelming evidence that in a variety of markets - retail car sales, bail bonding, kidney transplantation and FCC licensing - blacks and females are consistently at a disadvantage. For example, when Ayres sent out agents of different races and genders posing as potential buyers to more than 200 car dealerships in Chicago, he found that dealers regularly charged blacks and women more than they charged white men. Other tests revealed that it is commonly more difficult for blacks than whites to receive a kidney transplant because of federal regulations. Moreover, Ayres found that minority male defendants are frequently required to post higher bail bonds than their Caucasian counterparts. Traditional economic theory predicts that free markets should drive out discrimination, but Ayress startling findings challenge that position.Along with empirical research, Ayres offers game-theoretic and other economic methodologies to show how prejudice can enter the bargaining process even when participants are supposedly acting as rational economic agents. He also responds to critics of his previously published studies included here. These studies suggest that race and gender discrimination are neither a thing of the past nor merely limited to the handful of markets that have been the traditional focus of civil rights laws. Flap If youre a woman shopping for a new car, will you really get a good deal? If youre a man, will you fare better? If youre a black man waiting to receive an organ transplant, will you have to wait longer than a white man? In Pervasive Prejudice? Ian markets--retail confronts these questions and more. In a series of important studies he finds overwhelming evidence that in a variety of markets-retail car sales, bail bonding, and kidney transplantation--blacks and females are consistently at a disadvantage. For example, when Ayres sent out agents of different races and genders posing as potential buyers to more than 200 car dealerships in Chicago, he found that dealers regularly charged blacks and women more than they charged white men. Other tests revealed that it is commonly more difficult for blacks than whites to receive a kidney transplant because of federal regulations. Moreover, Ayres found that minority male defendants are frequently required to post higher bail bonds than their Caucasian counterparts. Traditional economic theory holds that free markets drive out discrimination, but Ayress startling findings challenge that position. Along with empirical research, Ayres offers game--theoretic and other economic methodologies to show how prejudice can enter the bargaining process even when participants are supposedly acting as rational economic agents. He also responds to critics of his previously published studies included here. These studies suggest that race and gender discrimination is neither a thing of the past nor merely limited to the handful of markets that have been the traditional focus of civil rights laws. Author Biography Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1 "Untitled" Discrimination Part I Disparate Treatment 2 Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car Negotiations (with Peter Siegelman) 3 Toward Causal Explanation 4 Discrimination in Consummated Transactions 5 Legal Implications Part II Disparate Impact 6 Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation (with Laura G. Dooley and Robert S. Gaston) 7 A Market Test for Race Discrimination in Bail Setting (with Joel Waldfogel) Part III Affirmative Action 8 How Affirmative Action at the FCC Auctions Decreased the Deficit (with Peter Cramton) 9 Expanding the Domain of Civil Rights Empiricism Index Details ISBN0226033538 Author Ian Ayres Language English ISBN-10 0226033538 ISBN-13 9780226033532 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 305 Year 2003 Series Studies in Law and Economics (Paperback) Edition New edition Short Title PERVASIVE PREJUDICE Subtitle Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination DOI 10.1604/9780226033532 Imprint University of Chicago Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2003-10-15 NZ Release Date 2003-10-15 US Release Date 2003-10-15 UK Release Date 2003-10-15 Pages 400 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Edition Description New edition Publication Date 2003-10-15 Illustrations 18 line drawings, 35 tables Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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