I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and partially age-blind hiring … procedures. Under the first hiring procedure, age is revealed simultaneously with other applicant information and job offer rates … are much lower for older than for younger job applicants. Under the second hiring procedure, interview selections are …

agent) is repeatedly faced with the opportunity of hiring one among several applicants to fill its vacancies. The firm is … their match with firm. A benevolent and unbiased labor market authority (the principal) enacts a hiring regulation (a direct …-revelation mechanism without transfers) in order to reduce the impact of the firm's bias on its hiring behavior. The hiring regulation is …

-Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reports, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this study is the first to … estimate the effect of BTB laws on crime. We find some evidence that BTB laws are associated with an increase in property crime …-induced increases in crime for non-Hispanic whites and women. Finally, we find that BTB laws are associated with a reduction in property …

effects is that workers value being involved in hiring …

This paper views hiring as a contextual bandit problem: to find the best workers over time, firms must balance … learn about quality). Yet modern hiring algorithms, based on "supervised learning" approaches, are designed solely for … approach improves the quality (as measured by eventual hiring rates) of candidates selected for an interview, while also …

approach the hiring problem, what determines the firm-level heterogeneity in hiring strategies, and whether these patterns …