Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly have been found to be the target of discriminatory behavior across several labor and product markets. Scholars have been less successful at pinpointing the underlying motives for

社会科学家已通过实证研究表明，歧视现象普遍存在：在多个劳动力与产品市场中，女性、非白人及老年群体均被发现为歧视性行为的目标群体。但学者们在精准定位此类歧视行为的深层动机方面，始终难以取得理想的研究进展。