Can You Identify the Discrimination?
Posted in labor markets on Mar 31st, 2011
Suppose you read a story with the headline: “Study Finds that Smaller Percentage of Women are Admitted to Graduate School than Men: Government Moves to Address this Discrimination.” Is the data evidence of discrimination? Does the policy proscription follow? Let’s put some hypothetical numbers to it. Suppose that for your university, 30% of male applicants […]
