Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal¶
Bertrand, M., & Mullainathan, S. (2004). Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal. American Economic Review, 94(4), 991-1013.
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- Stereotyping
- A hiring manager applying gender stereotypes, a clinician applying age-based diagnostic anchors, a recommendation system applying demographic profiles, and a police officer applying neighborhood-based threat assessments all perform the same structural operation: they allow category membership to trigger and dominate individual assessment, as Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004) demonstrated in their canonical correspondence-audit study of labor-market discrimination.
This sourceCorrespondence-audit study demonstrating that the same category-to-individual stereotyping pattern operates in hiring decisions, with name-based racial cues triggering measurable callback disparities.
- A hiring manager applying gender stereotypes, a clinician applying age-based diagnostic anchors, a recommendation system applying demographic profiles, and a police officer applying neighborhood-based threat assessments all perform the same structural operation: they allow category membership to trigger and dominate individual assessment, as Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004) demonstrated in their canonical correspondence-audit study of labor-market discrimination.
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