Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment
@article{Agan2016BanTB, title={Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment}, author={Amanda Y. Agan and Sonja B. Starr}, journal={Labor: Public Policy \& Regulation eJournal}, year={2016} }
"Ban-the-Box" (BTB) policies restrict employers from asking about applicants' criminal histories on job applications and are often presented as a means of reducing unemployment among black men, who disproportionately have criminal records. However, withholding information about criminal records could risk encouraging statistical discrimination: employers may make assumptions about criminality based on the applicant's race (or other observable characteristics). To investigate BTB's effects, we…
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