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

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An introduction to audit studies in the social sciences / S. Michael Gaddis -- Making it count : discrimination auditing and the activist scholar tradition / Frances Cherry and Marc Bendick Jr. -- Hiring discrimination : an overview of (almost) all correspondence experiments since 2005 / Stijn Baert -- Technical aspects of correspondence studies / Joanna Lahey and Ryan Beasley -- An introduction to conducting email audit studies / Charles Crabtree -- To match or not to match? Statistical and substantive considerations in audit design and analysis / Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson -- Opportunities and challenges in designing and conducting a labor market resume study / William Carbonaro and Jonathan Schwarz -- The geography of stigma : experimental methods to identify the penalty of place / Max Besbris, Jacob William Faber, Peter Rich, and Patrick Sharkey -- Emerging frontiers in audit study research : mechanisms, variation, and representativeness / David S. Pedulla.