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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahey, Joanna.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Beasley, Ryan.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22818.

NBER working paper series no. w22818

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

This paper discusses technical concerns and choices that arise when crafting a correspondence or audit study using external validity as a motivating framework. We will discuss resume creation, including power analysis, choice of inputs, pros and cons of matching pairs, solutions to the limited template problem, and ensuring that instruments indicate what the experimenters want them to indicate. Further topics about implementation include when and for how long to field a study, deciding on a participant pool, and whether or not to use replacement from the participant pool. More technical topics include matching outcomes to inputs, data storage, and analysis issues such as when to use clustering, when not to use fixed effects, and how to measure heterogeneous and interactive effects. We end with a technical checklist that experimenters can utilize prior to fielding a correspondence study.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2016.