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Table 4 Effect of North African origin according to the religious closeness signaled and difference in difference estimations

From: Hiring discrimination based on national origin and religious closeness: results from a field experiment in the Paris area

Comparison by pair on the same job offers

Difference between the callback rates (in % points)

T-statistic

Secular French/North African

15.33***

6.00

Catholic French/North African

14.00***

5.53

Muslim French/North African

9.00***

4.59

Comparison of differences between the pairs of applicants

Difference in difference between the pairs of applicants (in % points)

T-statistic

Secular applicants/Catholic applicants

1.33

0.41

Secular applicants/Muslim applicants

6.33**

2.04

Catholic applicants//Muslim applicants

5.00*

1.67

  1. The student test statistics have been computed by the Bootstrap method on 10000 repetitions.
  2. ***: Significant at 1%.**:Significant at 5% *:Significant at 10%.
  3. Source: calculations by the author.
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