Title: Replication Data for: Unintended Effects of Anonymous Résumés

Type Dataset Behaghel, Luc, Crépon, Bruno, Le Barbanchon, Thomas (2018): Replication Data for: Unintended Effects of Anonymous Résumés. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KDWAIH

Authors: Behaghel, Luc (Paris School of Economics-Inra) ; Crépon, Bruno (Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique) ; Le Barbanchon, Thomas (Bocconi University) ; Behaghel, Luc (Paris School of Economics-Inra) ; Crépon, Bruno (Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique) ; Le Barbanchon, Thomas (Bocconi University) ;

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Summary

We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized résumés for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous résumés or name-bearing ones. We find that participating firms become less likely to interview and hire minority candidates when receiving anonymous résumés. We show how these unexpected results can be explained by the self-selection of firms into the program and by the fact that anonymization prevents the attenuation of negative signals when the candidate belongs to a minority.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/KDWAIH

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: June 26, 2018
• Updated: April 03, 2020

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Waiver

Format

electronic resource

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