Matt Knepper

We, in turn, confirm the results of the EEOC study, as each one percentage point increase in the local unemployment rate reduces the callback rate for older women by 1.5 percentage points (off a baseline of a 10.8% callback rate), relative to middle-aged women. 10/n

Fortuitously for our purposes, the eight cities represented in the correspondence study were differentially impacted by the Great Recession, generating lots of across-city and across-time variation. 9/n

To test this, we incorporate data collected from a correspondence study (Farber et al. 2017) in which fictitious resumes of older and younger females were submitted to job postings for administrative support positions in 8 different cities across 4 rounds between 2012-2014. 8/n

We solve this confound by tracking how the quality of charges—measured by whether the EEOC has determined if a charge has reasonable cause—evolves with the business cycle. Quality is non-decreasing across the business cycle, suggesting that real discrimination increased. 6/n

Hi #EconTwitter, I am pleased to announce that I am on the job market this year. My latest working paper, joint with Gordon Dahl @UCSDEcon, is titled, "Age Discrimination across the Business Cycle." The full paper is available here: sites.google.com/site/mattmk… 1/n