The Price of Prejudice
通过实地实验研究职场中的种族偏见，发现歧视者平均愿意牺牲8%的收入来避免与不同种族的同事共事，且偏见对歧视成本变化高度敏感。
We present a new type of field experiment to investigate ethnic prejudice in the workplace. Our design allows us to study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is common but highly responsive to the “price of prejudice,” i.e., to the opportunity cost of choosing a less productive worker on ethnic grounds. Discriminators are on average willing to forego 8 percent of their earnings to avoid a coworker of the other ethnic type. The evidence suggests that animus rather than statistical discrimination explains observed behavior.