| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28718 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28718 |
| Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies | |
| Catherine Balfe; Patrick Button; Mary Penn; David Schwegman | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-26 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Audit correspondence studies are field experiments that test for discriminatory behavior in active markets. Researchers measure discrimination by comparing how responsive individuals ("audited units") are to correspondences from different types of people. This paper elaborates on the tradeoffs researchers face between sending audited units only one correspondence and sending them multiple correspondences, especially when including less common identity signals in the correspondences. We argue that when researchers use audit correspondence studies to measure discrimination against individuals that infrequently interact with audited units, they raise the risk that these audited units become aware they are being studied or otherwise act differently. We present the result of an audit correspondence study that demonstrates how this detection can occur when researchers send more than one correspondence from an uncommon minority group. We show how this detection leads to attenuated (downwardly biased) estimates of discrimination. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28718 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586391 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Catherine Balfe,Patrick Button,Mary Penn,et al. Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies. 2021. |
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