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Balfe, Catherine; Button, Patrick; Penn, Mary; Schwegman, David J. – Field Methods, 2023
Audit correspondence studies are field experiments that test for discriminatory behavior in active markets. Researchers measure discrimination by comparing how responsive individuals ("audited units") are to correspondences from different types of people. This article elaborates on the tradeoffs researchers face between sending audited…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Experiments, Audits (Verification), Researchers
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Adebayo, Kudus Oluwatoyin; Njoku, Emeka T. – Field Methods, 2023
How does shared identity between researcher and the researched influence trust-building for data generation and knowledge production? We reflect on this question based on two separate studies conducted by African-based researchers in sociology and political science in Nigeria. We advanced two interrelated positions. The first underscores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Science Research, Researchers, Interpersonal Relationship
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Liu, Yali; Buckingham, Louisa – Field Methods, 2023
To date, research on elite interviews has primarily focused on political or business settings in European and Anglo-American contexts. In this study, we examine the procedures involved in conducting elite interviews in academic settings, drawing on fieldwork with 53 senior scholars at 10 universities across five regions of northern China. We…
Descriptors: Interviews, Interpersonal Relationship, Research Methodology, College Faculty