The Gatekeeper Effect: The Implications of Pre-Screening, Self-Selection, and Bias for Hiring Processes

The author thanks Itai Ashlagi, Faidra Monachou, Scott Duke Kominers, Alex Chan, Dudu Lagziel, Itai Arieli, Ella Segev, Manuel Mueller-Frank, and Rann Smorodinsky for early discussions on this topic. The author also thanks the participants of the Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW2021) and the Big Data Conference 2021 held by Harvard’s CMSA. The author is grateful to three anonymous reviewers, the Associate Editor, and the Department Editor for their rigor and invaluable inputs, which significantly improved the paper. Most of the work was completed during the author’s term as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Harvard Laboratory for Economic Design, whom the author thanks for their support.