Koedel, Cory; Darolia, Rajeev; Martorell, Paco; Wilson, … - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2014
We sent nearly 9,000 fictitious resumes to advertisements for job openings in seven major cities in the United States across six occupational categories. We randomly assigned names to the resumes that convey race and gender but for which a strong socioeconomic connotation is not implicated. We...