http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1615149

46-page working paper released in May 2010 and examining “the effect of race on market outcomes by selling iPods through local online classified advertisements throughout the United States in a year-long field experiment. Each ad features a photograph of the product being held by a dark- or light-skinned (‘black’ or ‘white’) hand. To provide context, …[the authors]also consider a group of sellers against whom buyers might statistically discriminate for similar reasons: white sellers with wrist tattoos. Black sellers do worse than white sellers on a variety of market outcome measures: they receive 13% fewer responses and 17% fewer offers.” [Source: Docuticker, 04-06-10]

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