TY - JOUR AU - Button, Patrick AU - Walker, Brigham TI - Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 25849 PY - 2019 Y2 - May 2019 DO - 10.3386/w25849 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w25849 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w25849.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Patrick Button Department of Economics Tulane University 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 Tel: 949/295-6115 E-Mail: pbutton@tulane.edu Brigham C. Walker Department of Economics Tulane University 206 Tilton Hall 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 USA Tel: 3606072824 E-Mail: bwalker6@tulane.edu AB - We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic 13,516 resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and security) in 11 cities and compared callback rates. We signaled Indigenous status in one of four different ways. We almost never find any differences in callback rates, regardless of the context. These findings hold after numerous robustness checks, although our checks and discussions raise multiple concerns that are relevant to audit studies generally. ER -