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"Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show that group differences in the variance of unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant characteristics that affect hiring. The method is applied to actual data and assessed using Monte Carlo methods"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Abstract
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative. This issue has essentially been ignored in the empirical literature until the recent methodological development by Neumark (2012). We apply Neumark's method to a number of already published correspondence studies. We find the Heckman and Siegelman critique relevant for empirical work and give suggestions on how future correspondence studies may address this critique.

JEL classification

J71

1. Introduction -- Part I A Primer for Transpacific Correspondence -- 2. Studies in "Japanese Dream": A Transpacific Inquiry into Afrodiasporic Feminist Thought -- 3. When and Where We Entered: Intellectual Autobiographies of Japan's Black Studies Scholars -- Part II Crossing Over -- 4. You're My Pin-up Girl!: The Politics of Jazz Fandom and the Making of Mary Lou Williams in the 1940s -- 5. Caribbean Haiku of Wisdom: Reading Elis Juliana's Haiku in Papiamentu Translated into English -- 6. From Localized Marxism to Americanized Sophistication and Beyond: Studies of Black History in Postwar Japan -- Part III Transpacific Black Freedom Studies -- 7. African American Women in Japan under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945–1952 -- 8. S. I. Hayakawa and the Civil Rights Era -- 9. Yoriko Nakajima and Robert F. Williams: Reasoning with the Long Civil Rights Movement Thesis