Improving compliance in experimental studies of discrimination

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  • What: Through a pre-registered, nationally representative survey experiment (Section 2) the authors show that treatment compliance for commonly used race cues is low and asymmetric: assigning stereotypically Black names produces compliance as low as 33%, averaging 63% across all combinations of race and gender. Through simulation studies (Section 2.1) the authors show that the consequence of this noncompliance tends toward attenuation, producing treatment ef- fects that underestimate discrimination. 2 While the experiments and simulations are designed to replicate audit studies, this issue applies to all experimental studies that manipulate race cues remotely (as opposed to . . .

     

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