B0274
Title: Design and analysis of audits experiments
Authors: Tirthankar Dasgupta - Rutgers University (United States) [presenting]
Abstract: Audit experiments are tools used to test for discriminatory behaviour in situations where surveys and interviews can induce social desirability bias and are known to make strong causal claims. A common issue in audit experiments is the potential confounding of interventions with other attributes. For example, researchers often use names to signal race, but names may also signal other attributes, such as socio-economic status. Using other signals like income or occupation as additional interventions may help disentangle the effect of race from socio-economic status. Ideas, tools, methodology and some preliminary results are presented for disentangling the effects of potential confounders from interventions of interest by incorporating such confounders as additional interventions.
