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> I just went over the actual study itself and it does not support your claim:

Good catch, I had been thinking of another study which looked specifically at only changing names on resumes. That's:

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

https://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

In any event, its not a single study that's looked at this. Have a look at this meta-analysis of 24 studies

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/41/10870.full



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