TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Behaghel, Luc
AU  - Crépon, Bruno
AU  - Barbanchon, Thomas Le
        TI  - Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes
        PY  - 2014/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8517
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8517
        AB  - We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that participating firms become less likely to interview and hire minority candidates when receiving anonymous resumes. 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.
        KW  - anonymous applications
KW  - discrimination
KW  - randomized experiment
        ER  -