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Usually minorities on average perform worse (they are less likely to get called back). Their contribution the use of field experiment, in order to infer causality. Very relevant, has direct impact on many people, a lot of citations for this article relevance. Relevant because it overcomes the shortcomings of the previous studies. Policy implications, understand how to better use qualifications in interviews. Aas are twice more likely to be unemployed and earn less, they want to find the reasons for that. 2 separate concepts, but is difficult to disentangle these theories. On average aas may come from less educated and poorer backgrounds, so whites are expected to have a higher productivity example of statistical discrimination. Predicting that you would favor whites because they have more experience with whites, they discriminate aas because you do not know their productivity. If you hire an aa you increase the uncertainty over his/her productivity.
