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"Twenty years ago, Chicago Booth economists Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil
Mullainathan published a seminal paper that studied racial discrimination in
the labor market by sending fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and
Chicago newspapers. They revealed that equivalent resumes with distinctively
white names like Emily and Greg received 50% more callbacks for interviews than
those with distinctively Black names like Lakisha and Jamal.
In 2021, Chicago economist Evan Rose, along with Patrick Kline and Christopher
Walters, expanded Bertrand’s and Mullainathan’s work to a massive scale. Their
experiment, detailed in “Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers,”
measures the callback rates from over 83,000 fictitious job applications sent
to 11,000 entry level job openings at more than 100 Fortune 500 Firms. The
research revealed a surprising fact: A small number of companies are
responsible for a substantial amount of the contact discrimination measured."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
