@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15473,
            	author={Gregory-Smith, Ian and Bryson, Alex and Gomez, Rafael},
            	title={Discrimination in a Rank Order Contest. Evidence from the NFL Draft},
            	year={2022},
	month={Aug},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15473},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15473},
	abstract={This paper examines discrimination in the NFL draft. The NFL is a favourable empirical setting to examine the role of skin colour because franchise selectors are required to make rank-order judgements of players based on noisy signals of future productivity. Since wages are tightly related to the rank-order of the draft for the first four years of a player's career, even if discrimination plays only a marginal role in selection, there could be a large discriminatory impact. We observe large unadjusted racial differences in drafting. However, much of the variation is explained by Black and White players selecting into different playing positions. Conditional upon a large set of control variables, including athletic performance at a marque selection event (the NFL combine), we do not find robust evidence of racial discrimination in NFL drafting between 2000 and 2018.},
	keywords={discrimination;race;NFL},
            }