Event Title

Poster: Assessing the Cost of Discrimination

Location

Moakley Atrium

Start Time

13-5-2015 4:00 PM

End Time

13-5-2015 5:00 PM

Description

In economics, discrimination is modeled as a cost that individuals are willing to bear to limit contact or interaction with specific types or groups of individuals. As a result, discrimination is evaluated as though it were a rational behavior rather than a sub-optimal action that prevents the attainment of a more optimal social justice-based sustainable outcome. In my Spring 2015 Economics of Race (ECON 427) course we explore the contribution of economics with respect to the persistence of discrimination and specific to the manner in which the discipline has evaluated the cost and benefit of discrimination. The poster proposed will include both the standard economic assessment and the outcomes of student evaluation of discrimination in relation to the racial and ethnic groups evaluated in the course: African-Americans, Natives, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese.

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May 13th, 4:00 PM May 13th, 5:00 PM

Poster: Assessing the Cost of Discrimination

Moakley Atrium

In economics, discrimination is modeled as a cost that individuals are willing to bear to limit contact or interaction with specific types or groups of individuals. As a result, discrimination is evaluated as though it were a rational behavior rather than a sub-optimal action that prevents the attainment of a more optimal social justice-based sustainable outcome. In my Spring 2015 Economics of Race (ECON 427) course we explore the contribution of economics with respect to the persistence of discrimination and specific to the manner in which the discipline has evaluated the cost and benefit of discrimination. The poster proposed will include both the standard economic assessment and the outcomes of student evaluation of discrimination in relation to the racial and ethnic groups evaluated in the course: African-Americans, Natives, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese.