Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
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- Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2004. "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(4), pages 991-1013, September.
- Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2003. "Are emily and greg more employable than lakisha and jamal? A field experiment on labor market discrimination," Natural Field Experiments 00216, The Field Experiments Website.
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JEL classification:
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2003-07-29 (All new papers)
- NEP-EXP-2003-07-29 (Experimental Economics)
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