Discrimination

Amateur football clubs in Latin America show no overall discrimination against immigrants, but treatment varies sharply by origin, with players from lower-ranked football countries facing fewer positive responses, driven largely by perceived player q...

The land prices of the former outcaste neighbourhoods in Japan remain substantially lower, suggesting persistent stigma despite the legal abolition of discrimination more than a century ago.

Workplace discrimination by customers directly, and negatively, impacts women’s outcomes in the service industry in sub-Saharan Africa.

Does discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation during the housing search add to existing forms of discrimination and marginalisation? Does this further limit the opportunities for LGBTQ+ people in Latin America?

Evidence from India shows that discussions between peers from the same majority-group that include topics involving transgender people can be effective at reducing anti-transgender discrimination.

Representation in child media matters. Sesame Street’s positive representations of minorities and working women in 1969 had long run impacts on prejudices, influencing people’s propensity to vote for diverse candidates decades later.

Employers can discriminate and restrict women from taking up employment opportunities deemed unsafe. Research from Bangladesh suggests female workers entering the labour market may suffer most from paternalistic discrimination, where male workers ‘pr...

While caste-based occupations may hold 'productivity benefits', removing the discriminatory links between low castes and work brings even larger gains

Discrimination in consumer lending seems to come largely from biased male officers; combatting it may require cultural changes at the institutional level