The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations
利用美国第二大警察局的数据，研究发现白人主管在考虑工作表现后仍较少提名黑人警官获奖，这主要由主管的偏见而非统计歧视驱动，对理解职场晋升中的种族差距有启示。
There is evidence showing racial bias in firms’ hiring decisions, but less is known about bias in career recognition. We construct a dataset from the second-largest US police department to estimate the Black-white gap in award nominations. Leveraging institutional features, we find that white supervisors are less likely to nominate Black officers conditional on work performance. This appears to be driven by supervisor bias in advocacy decisions rather than statistical discrimination. Given the reliance on subjective evaluations for promotions in many organizations, our findings have important implications for the Black-white promotion gap and the lack of diversity in upper-management positions.