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November 3, 2007

Weekend footnotes

Today’s column was about sexual discrimination at your local coffee shop, based on research by Caitlin Knowles Myers [pdf]. Sarah Black and Elizabeth Brainerd found evidence that competition does reduce discrimination. Chris Dillow’s blog alerted me to the paper. Gary Becker’s Nobel lecture is perhaps the best online discussion of his economic theory of discrimination. And I regret that there was no space in the article to mention the Sexpresso trend.

November 3rd, 2007 in Footnotes, Undercover Economist | Permalink

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