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Replication Data for: Unintended Effects of Anonymous Résumés

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Title Replication Data for: Unintended Effects of Anonymous Résumés
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KDWAIH
 
Creator Behaghel, Luc
Crépon, Bruno
Le Barbanchon, Thomas
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Parrado, Andres