PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Laura Giuliano
AU  - David I. Levine
AU  - Jonathan Leonard
TI  - Racial Bias in the Manager-Employee Relationship
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.46.1.26
DP  - 2011 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 26--52
VI  - 46
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/1/26.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/1/26.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2011 Jan 01; 46
AB  - Using data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine how racial matches between managers and their employees affect rates of employee quits, dismissals, and promotions. We exploit changes in management at hundreds of stores to estimate hazard models with store fixed effects that control for all unobserved differences across store locations. We find a general pattern of own-race bias in that employees usually have better outcomes when they are the same race as their manager. But we do find anomalies in this pattern, particularly when the manager-employee match violates traditional racial hierarchies (for example, nonwhites managing whites).