Adaptive Correspondence Experiments
| Autor: | Christopher R. Walters, Evan K. Rose, Patrick Kline, Hadar Avivi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | AEA Papers and Proceedings. 111:43-48 |
| ISSN: | 2574-0776 2574-0768 |
| Popis: | Correspondence experiments probe for discrimination by manipulating employer perceptions of applicant characteristics. We consider the gains from dynamically adapting the number and quality of fictitious applications each employer receives to their prior callback decisions. Calibrating employer behavior to experimental data from Nunley et al. (2015), we find that it is possible to cut the number of applications required to detect a fixed number of discriminators roughly in half relative to a benchmark design with a fixed number of applications per job. These gains are achieved primarily from abandoning jobs with very low callback probabilities and those that call back Black applicants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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