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Article Dans Une Revue American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Année : 2015

Unintended Effects of Anonymous

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We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized résumés for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous résumés or name-bearing ones. We find that participating firms become less likely to interview and hire minority candidates when receiving anonymous résumés. We show how these unexpected results can be explained by the self-selection of firms into the program and by the fact that anonymization prevents the attenuation of negative signals when the candidate belongs to a minority.

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halshs-01203070 , version 1 (22-09-2015)

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Luc Behaghel, Bruno  Crépon, Thomas Le Barbanchon. Unintended Effects of Anonymous. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (3), pp.1-27. ⟨10.1257/app.20140185⟩. ⟨halshs-01203070⟩
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