Trends in racial and ethnic discrimination in hiring in six Western countries

Paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023.

Link to paper: here

Citation:  Quillian, Lincoln and John J. Lee. 2023. “Trends in Racial Discrimination in Hiring in Six Countries in Europe and North America.” The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (6) e2212875120.

Data and code are available on OSF, the data archive of the Center for Open Science.  OSF Project site is here

 

Comparative perspectives on racial discrimination in hiring: The rise of field experiments

Article published in the Annual Review of Sociology 2021.  Article available here

Suggested citation:

Quillian, Lincoln, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen. 2021. “Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments.”  Annual Review of Sociology 47: 391-417.

A pre-print version is available in two repositories.  The pre-print version has most of the same text but there are some small differences from the published version.

Pre-print version on SocArXiv

Pre-print on IPR Working Paper Series

Bibliographic list of field experiments in the paper : Bibliography_annual_review

Replication data and code for table 3:  replication_annual_review

 

Evidence from field experiments in hiring shows substantial additional racial discrimination after the callback

Now available:

Lincoln Quillian, John J. Lee, and Mariana Oliver.  2020.  “Evidence from Field Experiments in Hiring Shows Substantial Additional Racial Discrimination after the Callback”.  Social Forces.  99(2): 732–759.  Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa026

Data and code archive:  job offer replication

Reprinted in the 2020 virtual open-access issue of Social Forces on “Race, Discrimination, Inequality, and Policing” https://academic.oup.com/sf/pages/race-vi

This article is available OPEN ACCESS.

Racial discrimination in the U.S. housing and mortgage lending markets: A quantitative review of trends, 1976-2016

Our paper on trends in discrimination in the housing and mortgage market.  Citation:

Quillian, Lincoln, John J. Lee, Brandon Honoré.  2020. “Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing and Mortgage Lending Markets:  A Quantitative Review of Trends, 1976-2016.” Race and Social Problems 12(1): 13-28.
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-019-09276-x

Article here

Archive of data and code used in the paper (zip format):  housing-discrim-replication

Do some countries discriminate more than others? Evidence from 97 field experiments of racial discrimination in hiring

This paper focuses on cross-national comparisons of racial discrimination in hiring from field experiments.  Citation:

Quillian, Lincoln, Anthony Heath, Devah Pager, Arnfinn Midtbøen, Fenella Fleischmann, Ole Hexel.  2019. “Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others?  Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring.”  Sociological Science 6: 467-496.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15195/v6.a18

Link to study here

Additional data and information:

  1.  Bibliographic list of studies in the meta-analysis: Selected DMAP Bibliography for the SS article (05-17-2019)_updated
  2.  Zipped code and data archive: quillian_soc_sci_June_17_2019_code_data

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”