Syllabus: The Economics of Discrimination - Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber

Course Grading
Seminar presentaion (60%), oral performance in presentation and discussion (10%),
Written summary (30%).
Program:
Introduction: Friday 17.2. (Andrea Weber)
How do economists think about discrimination Economic theories of
discrimination
George J. Borjas, Labor Economics (Irwin McGraw Hill), Chapter 10
Becker, Gary (1975): The Economics of Discrimination, Second Edition, The University
of Chicago Press, Chicago.
List of Topics with literature references (9.3. and 10.3.)
1. Who are economists Status of minority groups in the economics profession
Rouse, Cecilia (2009) Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the
Economics Profession, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 99:2, 700–
709.
Collins, Susan M. “Minority Groups in the Economics Profession,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives 14 (Spring 2000): 133-148.
6. Evidence of Discrimination: Audit Studies
Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan (2003): Are Emily and Greg More
Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal : A Field Experiment on Labor Market
Discrimination, NBER Working Paper 9873.
Goldin, Claudia und Cecilia Rouse (2000): Orchestrating Impartiality: The Effect of
'Blind' Auditions on Female Musicians, American Economic Review, 90(4), 715-741.
7. Evidence of Discrimination: Laboratory and field experiments
Niederle, Muriel, Vesterlund, Lise, 2007. Do women shy away from competition Do men
compete too much Quarterly Journal of Economics 122 (3), 1067-1101.
Gneezy, Uri, Kenneth L. Leonard, John A. List (2009) Gender differences in competition:
Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society, Econometrica, 77, No. 5, 1637–
1664.
2. Gender wage differences in Germany and in international comparison
Beblo, M., Beninger, D., Heinze, A., Laisney, F., Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender
Wage Gaps in the EU, .ZEW Mannheim, Working Paper, 2003, (03-74).
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez (2010), Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany during
a Period of Rising Wage Inequality 1999 – 2006: Was it Discrimination in the Returns to
Human Capital SOEP paper 293.
Weichselbaumer, D., Winter-Ebmer, R., "A Meta-analysis of the International Gender
Wage Gap", Journal of Economic Surveys, 2005, 19(3), S. 479-511.
3. Discrimination in the labor market: Gender differences in top positions