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

PART I: The Theory Behind and History of Audit Studies.- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Audit Studies in the Social Sciences (S. Michael Gaddis).- Chapter 2. Making it Count: Discrimination Auditing and the Activist Scholar Tradition (Frances Cherry and Marc Bendick, Jr.).- Chapter 3. Discrimination in the Labour Market: A Register of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005 (Stijn Baert).- PART II: The Method of Audit Studies: Design, Implementation, and Analysis.- Chapter 4. Technical Aspects of Correspondence Studies (Joanna Lahey and Ryan Beasley).- Chapter 5. An Introduction to Conducting Email Audit Studies (Charles Crabtree).- Chapter 6. To Match or Not to Match? Statistical and Substantive Considerations in Audit Design and Analysis (Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson).- PART III: Nuance in Audit Studies: Context, Mechanisms, and the Future.- Chapter 7. Opportunities and Challenges in Designing and Conducting a Labor Market Resume Study (William Carbonaro and Jon Schwarz).- Chapter 8. The Geography of Stigma: Experimental Methods to Identify the Penalty of Place (Max Besbris, Jacob William Faber, Peter Rich, Patrick Sharkey).- Chapter 9. Emerging Frontiers in Audit Study Research: Mechanisms, Generalizability, and Variation (David S. Pedulla).