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Devah Pager
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 44
Citations - 9582
Devah Pager is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Criminal record & Criminal justice. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 43 publications receiving 8245 citations. Previous affiliations of Devah Pager include Institute for the Study of Labor & Northwestern University.
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The Mark of a Criminal Record
TL;DR: The findings of this study reveal an important, and much underrecognized, mechanism of stratification in the criminal justice system, which presents a major barrier to employment, with important implications for racial disparities.
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The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets
Devah Pager,Hana Shepherd +1 more
TL;DR: This discussion seeks to orient readers to some of the key debates in the study of discrimination and to provide a roadmap for those interested in building upon this long and important line of research.
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Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
TL;DR: A field experiment in the low-wage labor market of New York City recruiting white, black, and Latino job applicants who were matched on demographic characteristics and interpersonal skills shows that black applicants were half as likely as equally qualified whites to receive a callback or job offer.
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Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime
Lincoln Quillian,Devah Pager +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between neighborhood racial composition and perceptions residents have of their neighborhood's level of crime and found that the percentage of young black men in a neighborhood is positively associated with perceptions of the neighborhood crime level, even after controlling for two measures of crime rates and other neighborhood characteristics.
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Walking the Talk? What Employers Say Versus What They Do
Devah Pager,Lincoln Quillian +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between employers' attitudes toward hiring ex-offenders and their actual hiring behavior using data from an experimental audit study of entry-level jobs matched with a telephone survey of the same employers was investigated.