Resume dataset to analyze racial discrimination in the labor market.

resume

Format

A data frame with 4870 rows and 4 variables:

firstname

character: first name of the fictitious job applicant

sex

character: sex of applicant (female or male)

race

character: race of applicant (black or white)

call

integer: whether a callback was made (1 = yes, 0 = no)

Details

See QSS Table 2.1.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan (2004) “Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on labor market discrimination.” American Economic Review, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 991–1013. doi: 10.3386/w9873