This dataset is the result of a field experiment designed to indicate whether job applicants disclosing a criminal record in the British labour market have a lower probability of success than equivalent applicants not disclosing criminal records. The dataset also allows to conduct analysis on whether there is an interaction between the stigma of a criminal record and race and gender. It also includes questions on whether the job opening on which the candidates applied to had specific questions on criminal records. These questions may be used to test the potential effects of introducing a Ban-The-Box policy in the United Kingdom, which would prohibit questions on prior convictions in the first stages of the recruitment process.
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discrimination
,audit study
,field experiment
,criminal records
,ban the box