Racial Bias in Fans and Officials: Evidence from the Italian Serie A

• In Event: Standing ePanel: Racial Identity and Discrimination

Brief Overview

This paper uses recent incidents of racial harassment in Italian football as the basis for an examination of discrimination. We develop a novel dataset to show that darker-skinned players receive more foul calls, warnings, and ejections.

Authors

• Beatrice Magistro, University of Toronto

• Morgan Wack, University of Washington