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。