Researcher ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-4122
Graduation Year
2020
Date of Submission
11-2020
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Ricardo Fernholz
Rights Information
Kyle Gaisano
Abstract
Racial discrimination has not only been an issue in policing and in the labor market among others, but also it is a growing and contentious concern in professional sports leagues. This paper uses data from the 2017-18 and the 2018-19 NBA seasons to find evidence of racial bias and market inefficiencies in the context of sports betting markets. We find that although the results only weakly support this, there is some evidence of racial bias in the league. This is because it was found that sports betting companies tend to price in race-related information into the betting odds.
Recommended Citation
Gaisano, Kyle, "Is There Racial Bias in Officiating NBA Games?" (2020). CMC Senior Theses. 2556.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2556
