This paper investigates customer racial discrimination in the market for baseball cards. It extends previous research by measuring customer racial preferences at the beginning and end of players' careers. Our results indicate that customer biases against active Black and Hispanic baseball players may be mitigated by differential expectations of future performance. However, over time we detect statistical differences in rookie card prices by ethnicity, as performance expectations become less important at the end of a player's career.
Uses qualitative response models of occupational choice to
investigate differences in the occupational structures of minority
workers relative to white men. Compares the accuracy of multinomial
logit and multiple discriminant analyses in predicting occupational
distributions. Further, investigates whether these models yield
consistent estimates of the level of occupational segregation of
minority workers. The results suggest that logit and discriminant
analysis are equally accurate and stable methods for comparing
occupational structures across groups of workers.
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