Resume response data
resume.RdData 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.
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