The Visible Hand: Race and Online Market Outcomes Academic Article

abstract

• We examine the effect of race on market outcomes by selling iPods through local online classified advertisements throughout the US. Each advertisement features a photograph including a dark or light-skinned hand, or one with a wrist tattoo. Black sellers receive fewer and lower offers than white sellers, and the correspondence with black sellers indicates lower levels of trust. Black sellers' outcomes are particularly poor in thin markets (suggesting that discrimination may not 'survive' competition among buyers) and those with the most racial isolation and property crime (consistent with channels through which statistical discrimination might operate). 2013 Royal Economic Society.

authors

• Doleac, Jennifer

published proceedings

• The Economic Journal

altmetric score

• 160.266

author list (cited authors)

• Doleac, J. L., & Stein, L.

citation count

• 144

complete list of authors

• Doleac, Jennifer L||Stein, Luke CD

publication date

• November 2013

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• Economic Journal  Journal

keywords

• Advertising
• C93
• J15
• J71
• L96
• Race

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/ecoj.12082

start page

• f469

end page

• f492

volume

• 123

issue

• 572

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12082