Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time.

Our first DMAP paper.  Citation:

Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Ole Hexel, Arnfinn Midtbøen.  2017.  “Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time.”  The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/41/10870

Additional information on the meta-analysis:

  1.  Bibliographic list of studies in the meta-analysis:  bibliographic_list_us_studies-2h9zvtx
  2. Data and code (zipped archive):  quillian_pnas_sept_2017_replication-1sn2eai
  3. Response to a blog post by L.J. Zigerell about “small-sample effects” and publication bias in our PNAS paper.  His post is here.  Our reply (in pdf): zigerell_reply-20r9p1j

 

We also published a short summary of our findings in the Harvard Business Review:

Quillian, Lincoln, Devah Pager, Arnfinn Midtbøen, Ole Hexel.  2017.  “Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn’t Declined in 25 Years.”  The Harvard Business Review October 11, 2017.  https://hbr.org/2017/10/hiring-discrimination-against-black-americans-hasnt-declined-in-25-years

The HBR article was also reprinted in the Best of HBR Fall 2020 Special Issue on “How to Fight Racism at Work”