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    American Economic Association

    Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on LaborMarket DiscriminationAuthor(s): Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil MullainathanReviewed work(s):Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Sep., 2004), pp. 991-1013Published by: American Economic AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592802 .

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