Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity.

ABSTRACT: A large and fast-growing number of studies across the social sciences use experiments to better understand the role of race in human interactions, particularly in the American context. Researchers often use names to signal the race of individuals portrayed in these experiments. However, those names might also signal other attributes, such as socioeconomic status (e.g., education and income) and citizenship. If they do, researchers would benefit greatly from pre-tested names with data on perceptions of these attributes; such data would permit researchers to draw correct inferences about the causal effect of race in their experiments. In this paper, we provide the largest dataset of validated name perceptions to date based on three different surveys conducted in the United States. In total,

SUBMITTER: Crabtree C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10006241 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature