resume {probstats4econ}

Resume response data

Description

Data on responses to hypothetical resumes that were created for an experimental study, based upon "Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment" by Amanda Agan and Sonja Starr, 2018, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133: 191-235. This dataset considers only the subsample from before the ban-the-box initiative.

Usage

resume

Format

resume

A data frame with 7,332 rows and 7 columns:

crime

1 if applicant has criminal record, 0 otherwise

drugcrime

1 if applicant has committed drug crime, 0 otherwise

propertycrime

1 if applicant has committed property crime, 0 otherwise

ged

1 if applicant has GED, 0 otherwise

empgap

1 if applicant has a gap in employment, 0 otherwise

black

1 if applicant is black, 0 otherwise

response

1 if applicant received positive response, 0 otherwise

Source

doi:10.7910/DVN/VPHMNT