For 10 points, name this activity that refers to disparate treatment on the basis of race, religion, or gender.
Faye Crosby's study of Boston women found a discrepancy between people's belief about this activity in their personal lives and at a national level, the "personal/group discrepancy." A 1972 paper by Dennis Aigner and Glenn Cain builds on work by Kenneth Arrow and Edmund Phelps to create a statistical model of this activity, which treats it as a signal extraction problem. Gary Becker's dissertation used a (*) taste-based model of it that predicted a competitive market would make this activity unprofitable. In a 1954 book, Gordon Allport claimed it was a result of thinking categorically and placed a society where it occurred at the third highest level on his prejudice scale. Bertrand and Mullainathan documented this activity by sending fake resumes that were identical except for the name and comparing the callback rates, and "Gentlemen's Agreements" are typically employed to engage in this. For 10 points, name this activity that refers to disparate treatment on the basis of race, religion, or gender.
Faye Crosby's study of Boston women found a discrepancy between people's belief about this activity in their personal lives and at a national level, the "personal/group discrepancy.
discrimination [Accept "prejudice" before it\'s mentioned, though that\'s not really an activity]