
Professor Hersch's work on compensating differentials for sexual harassment is currently featured in The Washington Post. [Read "The Risk of Sexual Harassment Can Mean a Bigger Paycheck."]
"Skin Color, Physical Appearance, and Perceived Discriminatory Treatment," forthcoming Journal of Socio-Economics (2011), is newly available. [Download the Article-in-press]
"The Persistence of Skin Color Discrimination for Immigrants" is published and available in the September 2011 issue of Social Science Research 40(5). [Download the pdf]
Professor Hersch discusses a New Jersey law that prohibits employers from barring unemployed workers from applying for jobs in "The Bias against the Unemployed" in The New York Times' Room for Debate. [Read the New York Times discussion] [Download Professor Hersch's segment]
Joni Hersch has published over 60 articles and book chapters. Her survey paper Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market (2006) was published as a book by Foundations and Trends: Microeconomics. (CV) (Download publications) (Joni Hersch at SSRN)
Joni Hersch is an economist who works in the areas of employment discrimination and empirical law and economics. Her recent research examines skin color discrimination, job risks faced by immigrant workers, costs of smoking, punitive damages awards, and judge and jury behavior. (Read more)
March 22, 2011: University of Houston-Rice University Empirical Microeconomics Seminar Series, Houston, TX
April 14, 2011: Kansas State University Department of Economics, Manhattan, KS