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ban the box: a standalone construct

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ban the box1 CONSTRUCTBan the box (Law)AGAN · LAW AND ECONOMICS

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Law and economics

laws barring employers from asking about criminal records on job applications, and their unintended effect on racial discrimination.

In law and economics, ban the box refers to laws barring employers from asking about criminal records on job applications, and their unintended effect on racial discrimination. This meaning comes from Agan (2017) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics.[1]

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  1. Agan, A., & Starr, S. (2017). Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(1), 191-235. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx028

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