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Historically, econ has thought employers as more rational than women and minorities. It translated in how economists define and measure discrimination.
Here is a short thread on my PhD thesis bc it’s Sunday and it’s raining 1/28
Here is a short thread on my PhD thesis bc it’s Sunday and it’s raining 1/28
My PhD was on the history of a specific (now standard) approach to discrimination (*the economics of*) I studied the origin and reception of theories and models, as well as empirical analyses and their uses outside academia, from the 1950s until the 2000s, in the USA. 2/28
While you can conceptually separate approaches that seek to explain discriminations, and those that wish to measure and produce evidence, it’s intertwined in the production and reception of the analyses - here Becker and Arrow's models 3/28
