records from 2007-2017 to collect information on federal judicial panels, and by merging this data with judicial hiring … increase in the fraction of co-panelists who are female increases a judge’s likelihood of hiring a female clerk by 4 percentage …

I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and partially age-blind hiring … procedures. Under the first hiring procedure, age is revealed simultaneously with other applicant information and job offer rates … are much lower for older than for younger job applicants. Under the second hiring procedure, interview selections are …

discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to older and younger job applicants from a … age discrimination in hiring. The methods we develop provide a framework for applied researchers analyzing textual data …

This paper views hiring as a contextual bandit problem: to find the best workers over time, firms must balance … learn about quality). Yet modern hiring algorithms, based on “supervised learning” approaches, are designed solely for … approach improves the quality (as measured by eventual hiring rates) of candidates selected for an interview, while also …

" college basketball tournament affect NBA teams' draft decisions? If so, is this effect the result of decision making biases …

Job testing technologies enable firms to rely less on human judgement when making hiring decisions. Placing more weight … on test scores may improve hiring decisions by reducing the influence of human bias or mistakes but may also lead firms …

effects on cognition, productivity, decision-making, or well-being, and led to small decreases in labor supply. In contrast … increases in productivity, psychological well-being, and cognition, but a decrease in work time …