Unintended consequences, again

[aphar]

Amanda Agan, Sonja Starr; Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, , qjx028, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx028

BtB: ban employers from asking job applicants for their criminal record.
Before BTB, white applicants to employers with the box received 7% more callbacks than similar black applicants, but BTB increased this gap to 43%. We believe that the best interpretation of these results is that employers are relying on exaggerated impressions of real-world racial differences in felony conviction rates.

IOW, BtB hurts the blacks.

Comments

[gingema]

Only very myopic and ignorant people would not predict these consequences.

[aphar]

yes, this is what Murray said too.