This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature suggests different explanations for the existence and persistence of group inequality. This survey highlights such differences and describes in these contexts the effects of color-sighted and color-blind affirmative action policies, and the efficiency implications of discriminatory outcomes.

Andrea Moro

Hanming Fang

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(1993a), \Will Armative Action Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?&quot;

(2003a), \Armative Action in a Competitive Economy&quot;,

(2003b), \Empirical Implications of Statistical Discrimination on the Returns to Measures of Skills&quot;,

(2005a), \Toward An Economic Theory of Dysfunctional Identity&quot;, in Social Economics of Poverty: On Identities, Groups, Communities and Networks,

A Language Theory of Discrimination&quot;

A Systemic Analysis of Armative Action in American Law Schools&quot;,

A Theory of Armative Action in College Admissions&quot;,

Antidiscrimination Enforcement and the Problem of Patronization&quot;,

Approaches to the Economics of Discrimination&quot;,

Armative Action in a Competitive Economy&quot;,

Armative Action in Higher Education: How do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Aect Future Earnings?&quot;

Armative Action in Winner-Take-All Markets&quot;,

Assessing Armative Action&quot;,

Asymmetric Tournaments, Equal Opportunity Laws, and Armative Action: Some Experimental Results&quot;.

Belief ipping in a dynamic model of statistical discrimination&quot;,

Black{white labour market inequality in the United States&quot;, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and

College Admissions with Armative Action&quot;,

College Selectivity and Earnings.&quot;

Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination&quot;,

Discrimination and Skill Dierences in an Equilibrium Search Model&quot;,

Disentangling the college wage premium: estimating a model with endogenous education choices&quot;,

Distinguishing prejudice from statistical discrimination: a uni framework&quot;, mimeo,

Diversity and Armative Action in Higher Education&quot;,

Does Armative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence&quot;,

Does Armative Action Reduce the Number of Black Lawyers?&quot;

Does Banning Armative Action Lower College Student Quality?&quot;

Earnings Functions, Rates of Returns and Treatment Eects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond&quot;,

Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination&quot;,

Endogenous Inequality in Integrated Labor Markets with Two-Sided Search.&quot;

Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining&quot;,

Government-mandated discriminatory policies&quot;,

Is Armative Action Responsible for the Achievement Gap Between Black and White Law Students?&quot;

Is Statistical Discrimination Ecient?&quot;

Is Statistical Discrimination Socially Ecient?&quot;,

Job Discrimination, Market Forces, and the Invisibility Hypothesis&quot;,

Job Market Signaling&quot;,

Minorities and Endogenous Segregation&quot;,

On the Demographic Composition of Colleges and Universities in Market Equilibrium,&quot;

Optimal Statistical Decisions. Wiley-Interscience, First Edition.

Private Discrimination and Social Intervention in Competitive Markets&quot;,

Race and Gender in the Labor Market&quot;,

Role Models and Arguments for Armative Action&quot;,

Social Culture and Economic Performance&quot;,

Statistical Discrimination and Eciency&quot;,

Statistical Discrimination and Intergenerational Income Mobility&quot;, mimeo, UC San Diego. 32Moro and Norman (2003b) show this point formally. 33See also Flabbi

Statistical Discrimination and the Implications of EmployerEmployee Racial Matches,&quot; Unpublished manuscript,

Statistical Discrimination with Peer Eects: Can Integration Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?&quot;,

Statistical Theories of Discrimination in the Labor Market&quot;,

The Dynamics of Collective Reputation&quot;,

The Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination&quot;,

The Economic Analysis of Labor Market Discrimination: A Survey&quot;,

The eect of statistical discrimination on black-white wage inequality: estimating a model with multiple equilibria&quot;,

The Enforcement of Equal Opportunity Laws under Imperfect Information: Armative Action and Alternatives.&quot;

The Incentive Eects of Armative Action in a Real-Eort Tournament&quot;, Unpublished Working Paper, Universitat Aut onoma de Barcelona.

The Real Impact of Eliminating Armative Action in American Law Schools: An Empirical Critique of Richard Sander's Study&quot;,

Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey

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