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  -