Reasonable Doubt: Experimental Detection of Job‐Level Employment Discrimination
合理怀疑：岗位层面就业歧视的实验检测
This paper develops methods for detecting discrimination by individual employers using correspondence experiments that send fictitious resumes to real job openings. We establish identification of higher moments of the distribution of job‐level callback rates as a function of the number of resumes sent to each job and propose shape‐constrained estimators of these moments. Applying our methods to three experimental data sets, we find striking job‐level heterogeneity in the…