PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Flory, Jeffrey A.
AU  - Leibbrandt, Andreas
AU  - Rott, Christina
AU  - Stoddard, Olga
TI  - Increasing Workplace Diversity: Evidence from a Recruiting Experiment at a Fortune 500 Company
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.56.1.0518-9489R1
DP  - 2019 Aug 06
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0518-9489R1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/08/02/jhr.56.1.0518-9489R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/08/02/jhr.56.1.0518-9489R1.full
AB  - While many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity in their ranks, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field experiment to test several hypotheses on effective means to attract minority candidates for top professional careers. By randomly varying the content in recruiting materials of a major financial services corporation with over 10,000 employees, we find that signaling explicit interest in employee diversity more than doubles the interest in openings among racial minority candidates, the likelihood that they apply and are selected. Impacts on gender diversity are less sharp, and generally not significant.