AER (version 0.2-2)

ResumeNames: Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?

Description

Cross-section data about resume, call-back and employer information for 4,870 fictitious resumes.

Usage

data("ResumeNames")

source

Online complements to Stock and Watson (2007).

http://wps.aw.com/aw_stock_ie_2/

Details

Cross-section data about resume, call-back and employer information for 4,870 fictitious resumes sent in response to employment advertisements in Chicago and Boston in 2001, in a randomized controlled experiment conducted by Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004). The resumes contained information concerning the ethnicity of the applicant. Because ethnicity is not typically included on a resume, resumes were differentiated on the basis of so-called Caucasian sounding names (such as Emily Walsh or Gregory Baker) and African American sounding names (such as Lakisha Washington or Jamal Jones). A large collection of fictitious resumes were created and the pre-supposed ethnicity (based on the sound of the name) was randomly assigned to each resume. These resumes were sent to prospective employers to see which resumes generated a phone call from the prospective employer.

References

Bertrand, M. and Mullainathan, S. (2004). Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. American Economic Review, 94, 991--1013.

Stock, J.H. and Watson, M.W. (2007). Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison Wesley.

See Also

StockWatson2007

Examples

data("ResumeNames")
summary(ResumeNames)
prop.table(xtabs(~ ethnicity + call, data = ResumeNames), 1)