Monday, August 22, 2016

From the abstract of Agan and Starr's "Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment".
...we find that the race gap in callbacks grows dramatically at the BTB-affected companies after the policy goes into effect. Before BTB, white applicants to BTB-affected employers received about 7% more callbacks than similar black applicants, but BTB increases this gap to 45%.

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