Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance

Part I. The Theory Behind and History of Audit Studies

1. An Introduction to Audit Studies in the Social Sciences
S. Michael Gaddis

2. Making It Count: Discrimination Auditing and the Activist Scholar Tradition
Frances Cherry, Marc Bendick

3. Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005
Stijn Baert

Part II. The Method of Audit Studies: Design, Implementation, and Analysis

4. Technical Aspects of Correspondence Studies
Joanna Lahey, Ryan Beasley

5. An Introduction to Conducting Email Audit Studies
Charles Crabtree

6. To Match or Not to Match? Statistical and Substantive Considerations in Audit Design and Analysis
Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, Sarah Lageson

Part III. Nuance in Audit Studies: Context, Mechanisms, and the Future

7. Opportunities and Challenges in Designing and Conducting a Labor Market Resume Study
William Carbonaro, Jonathan Schwarz

8. The Geography of Stigma: Experimental Methods to Identify the Penalty of Place
Max Besbris, Jacob William Faber, Peter Rich, Patrick Sharkey

9. Emerging Frontiers in Audit Study Research: Mechanisms, Variation, and Representativeness
David S. Pedulla

Keywords: Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general