THE VISIBLE HAND: RACE AND ONLINE MARKET OUTCOMES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Doleac, Jennifer L.; Stein, Luke C. D.
• 署名单位: University of Virginia; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12082
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: F469-F492
• 关键词: racial-discrimination; field experiment

摘要

We examine the effect of race on market outcomes by selling iPods through local online classified advertisements throughout the US. Each advertisement features a photograph including a dark or light-skinned hand, or one with a wrist tattoo. Black sellers receive fewer and lower offers than white sellers, and the correspondence with black sellers indicates lower levels of trust. Black sellers' outcomes are particularly poor in thin markets (suggesting that discrimination may not survive' competition among buyers) and those with the most racial isolation and property crime (consistent with channels through which statistical discrimination might operate).