
Are diversity issues and, more specifically, the lack of non-white and female lead characters in Hollywood films driven, in part, by economic concerns from movie studios?Ìý An analysis by Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»ÌýProfessor of EconomicsÌýRoberto Pedace ofÌýmore thanÌý800 films sampled between 2005 and 2012 suggests the answer is “yes.” Pedace, who was assisted in his research over multiple years byÌýÂé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»alumnaÌýGuadalupe De La CruzÌýÌý’11 and Zoe Pinczower (CMC ’17), writes about his researchÌýinÌý. The article also ran inÌýtheÌý,Ìýthe, and.