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Pager, Devah. 2007. Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press.
Book of the Year Award, Association for Humanist Sociology
PASS Book for the Year Award, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Selected for: Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 2008.
Journal Articles
Quillian, Lincoln, Devah Pager, Ole Hexel, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen. 2017. "Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (September):1-6. PDF
Pager, Devah. 2016. "Are Firms that Discriminate More Likely to Go Out of Business?" Sociological Science (September):849-859. PDF
. 2013. “Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages.” Journal of Law and Economics 56(August):633-689. PDF
. 2012. “Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments.” Journal of Social Issues 68(2):221-227. PDF
. 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. “Estimating Risk: Stereotype Amplification and the Perceived Risk of Criminal Victimization.” Social Psychology Quarterly 73(1):79-104. PDF
. 2009. “Discrimination in a Low Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.” American Sociological Review 74(October):777-799. PDF
Reprinted in:
The Social Construction of Difference. 2010. Tracy Ore (Ed.).
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: A Reader. 2009. Jeffrey Reiman (Ed.) New York: Allyn and Bacon.
Inequality and Society: Social Science Perspectives on Social Stratification. 2009. Jeff Manza and Michael Sauder (Eds.). New York: W.W. Norton.
. 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
. 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. “The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets.” Annual Review of Sociology 34:181-209. PDF
. 2008. “The Republican ideal? National minorities and the criminal justice system in contemporary France.” Punishment and Society 10(4):375-400. PDF
. 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
. 2005. “Double Jeopardy: Race, Crime, and Getting a Job.” Wisconsin Law Review 2:617-660.
. 2005. “Walking the Talk: What Employers Say Versus What They Do.” American Sociological Review 70(3):355-380. PDF
. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937-975. PDF
Reprinted in:
Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 3rd Ed. 2008. David Grusky (Ed).
Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 2nd Ed. Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret Anderson (Eds).
Down to Earth Sociology. 2007. Jen Henslin (Ed).
Race, Law and Society. 2006. Ian Haney Lopez (Ed).
Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity. 2006. Charles Gallagher (Ed).
. 2003. “Blacks and Ex-Cons Need Not Apply.” Contexts 2(4):58-59. PDF
. 2001. “Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime.” American Journal of Sociology 107(3):717-767. PDF
. 2001. “The Structure of Disadvantage: Individual and Occupational Determinants of the Black-White Wage Gap.” American Sociological Review 66(4):542-567. PDF
Reports
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, e
. 2005. 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
Book Chapters
. 2013. “The "Stickiness" of Race in an Era of Mass Incarceration” in Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Postracist Era, . New York: Russell Sage Press.
Pager, Devah. 2012."Inequality and Punishment: the End of Mass Incarceration?" in Living in a High Inequality Regime, edited by David Grusky and Alair MacLean. New York: Russell Sage Press. Forthcoming.
Pager, Devah. 2009. "Field Experiments for Studies of Discrimination" Pp. 38-60 in Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend they Never Have, edited by Eszter Hargittai. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Pager, Devah. 2008. "Blacklisted: Hiring Discrimination in an Era of Mass Incarceration" in Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male, edited by Elijah Anderson. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Pager, Devah. 2008. "The Dynamics of Discrimination" Pp. 21-51 in Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist, edited by David Harris and Ann Lin. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Pager, Devah. 2007. "Two Strikes and You're Out: The Intensification of Racial and Criminal Stigma" Pp. 151-173 in Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America, edited by David Weiman, Shawn Bushway and Michael Stoll. New York: Russell Sage Press.
Pager, Devah. 2004. "Race-Ethnicity, Social Background, and Grade Retention" Pp. 97-114 in Can Unlike Students Learn Together? Grade Retention, Tracking, and Grouping, edited by Herbert J. Walberg, Arthur J. Reynolds, and Margaret C. Wang. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Pager, Devah. 2004. "High School Dropout, Race-Ethnicity, and Social Background from the 1970s to the 1990s" in Dropouts in America: Congronting the Graduation Rate Crisis, edited by Gary Orfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.