Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

The authors thank David Abrams, Kyle Coombs, Gordon Dahl, Katie Donovan, Peter Kuhn, Joanna Lahey, Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Bobby Pakzad-Hurson, Patryk Perkowski, Lamar Pierce, David Reiley, Jonah Rockoff, Nina Roussille, Chris Stanton, Olga Stoddard, Olga Shurchov and Laurina Zhang for valuable feedback and comments as well as participants at the MEER Conference, the Advances in Field Experiments Conference, the AEA Annual Meeting, the HBS I&I Conference, the Economic Science Association Conference, the Empirical Management Conference, Entrepreneurship and Private Enterprise Development (EPED), NBER Market Design, NBER Summer Institute (Labor), SMS Annual Conference, the Wharton People Analytics Conference, the IZA Workshop, and the seminars at Barnard College, Boston College, Clemson University, Columbia University, Cornell University, the Federal Reserve Board, Florida State University, George Mason University, Nuffield College (Oxford), RAND, Strategy Research Forum (SRF), Simon Fraser, SUNY Albany, University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Connecticut, University of Missouri, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Texas at Dallas and Urbana Champagne (UIUC). We also thank Hailey Brace, Karishma Chouhan, Nadine Fares, Zachary Finn, Matt Fondy and Norman Yuan for research assistance. And we acknowledge financial support from the W.E. Upjohn Institute, Facebook Research and the Kauffman Foundation. The experiments in this paper were approved by an Institutional Review Board and preregistered at the AEA RCT Registry under AEARCTR-0003088. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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