RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Racial Bias in the Manager-Employee Relationship JF Journal of Human Resources JO J Hum Resour FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 26 OP 52 DO 10.3368/jhr.46.1.26 VO 46 IS 1 A1 Giuliano, Laura A1 Levine, David I. A1 Leonard, Jonathan YR 2011 UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/1/26.abstract 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).