This article examines customer discrimination considering a unique data set from the most popular sports industry in India, that is, cricket. Relying on Playing XI vote in the Indian Premier League, we analyze whether supporters have different personal preferences toward players based on their location of origin and religion. In contrast to the often-heated rhetoric surrounding discrimination and previous literature, we overall do not find any discrimination in voting. We instead find a positive preference for popular foreign players. Our results further suggest that if we examine discrimination by controlling for proxy productivity characteristics, it may produce bias results.

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衡量客户歧视：来自印度职业板球联赛的证据

本文考虑了来自印度最受欢迎的体育行业（即板球）的独特数据集，从而研究了客户歧视。依靠在印度超级联赛中进行的XI投票，我们根据支持者的血统和宗教信仰来分析他们对支持者的个人偏好是否不同。与经常被热烈的围绕歧视的言论和先前的文献相比，我们总体上在投票中没有发现任何歧视。相反，我们找到了受欢迎的外国玩家的积极偏好。我们的结果进一步表明，如果我们通过控制代理生产力特征来检查歧视，则可能会产生偏见。