An economic study on race discrimination in hiring gathers 5…

An economic study on race discrimination in hiring gathers 500 similar-caliber résumés posted on a job search website. The names and contact information on the résumés are removed, and replaced with fictitious identities. With random assignment, half of the résumés are given uniquely White names, while the other half are given uniquely Hispanic names. The résumés are submitted to 50 different job posts from different industries, and the number of call-backs are recorded for each group. This is [answer1], so we [answer2] claim causation based on the results because it is [answer3] to have confounding variables potentially responsible for the association in these variables.