Publications

Working Paper
Pager, Devah, and David Pedulla. Working Paper. “Race, Self-Selection, and the Job Search Process”.
Pager, Devah, and Michelle Phelps. Working Paper. “Prison as a Social Context: Inmate Trajectories and their Facility Environments Over Time”.
Pager, Devah, and Michelle Phelps. Working Paper. “The End of Mass Incarceration? The Social, Political, and Economic Correlates of States' Declining Incarceration Rates”.
2014
National, Research Council. 2014. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. edited by Jeremy Travis and Bruce Western. National Academies of Science.
2013
Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Devah Pager, and Jörg L Spenkuch. 2013. “Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages”. Journal of Law and Economics 56 (August):633-689. PDF
Pager, Devah. 2013. “The "Stickiness" of Race in an Era of Mass Incarceration”. in Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Postracist Era, edited by Robert Lieberman and Fredrick Harris. New York: Russell Sage Press.
2012
Pager, Devah, and Bruce Western. 2012. “Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments”. Journal of Social Issues 68 (2):221-227. PDF
2011
Pager, Devah. 2011. “Comment: Young Disadvantaged Men: Reactions from the Perspective of Race”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 635 (1):123-130. PDF
2010
Quillian, Lincoln, and Devah Pager. 2010. “Estimating Risk: Stereotype Amplification and the Perceived Risk of Criminal Victimization”. Social Psychology Quarterly 73 (1):79-104. PDF
2009
Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikoswki. 2009. “Discrimination in a Low Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment”. American Sociological Review 74 (October):777-799. PDF
Pager, Devah, and Diana Karafin. 2009. “Bayesian Bigot? Statistical Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Employer Decision Making”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 621 (January):70-93. PDF
Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Naomi Sugie. 2009. “Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 623 (May):195-213. PDF
2008
Pager, Devah, and Hana Shepherd. 2008. “The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets”. Annual Review of Sociolgy 34:181-209. PDF
Pager, Devah. 2008. “The Republican ideal? National minorities and the criminal justice system in contemporary France”. Punishment and Society 10 (4):375-400. PDF
2007
Pager, Devah. 2007. Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press.
Pager, Devah. 2007. “The Use of Field Experiments for Studies of Employment Discrimination: Contributions, Critiques, and Directions for the Future”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 609 (Janurary):104-133. PDF
2006
Pager, Devah, and Bruce Western. 2006. Race at Work: Realities of Race and Criminal Record in the New York City Job Market. Report prepared for the 50th Anniversary of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. PDF
2005
Pager, Devah. 2005. “Double Jeopardy: Race, Crime, and Getting a Job”. Wisconsin Law Review 2617-660.
Pager, Devah. 2005. “Evidence-Based Policy for Successful Prisoner Reentry”. Criminology and Public Policy 5 (3):505-514. PDF
Pager, Devah, and Lincoln Quillian. 2005. “Walking the Talk: What Employers Say Versus What They Do”. American Sociological Review 70 (3):355-380. PDF

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