Correspondence studies

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Abstract

Correspondence tests are the golden standard to examine discriminatory behavior in the real world. This chapter starts with distinguishing correspondence tests from related methods, such as situation tests, mystery calls, and mystery visits on the basis of three criteria. Afterwards, it briefly discusses the history of correspondence tests and its main applications during the past decades on the labor, housing, and consumer markets. Next, it considers a few methodological issues that should be taken into account while conducting correspondence tests: matched versus randomly assigned testing; signaling the discrimination ground; getting ethical approval for testing; and the representativeness of the tested subjects. Finally, this chapter ends with recommendations. Future research should combine correspondence tests with other methods of data collection, expand the scope of contexts and groups, trade-off the advantages of situation tests against the advantages of correspondence tests, and apply correspondence tests for policy applications and evaluations.
Translated title of the contributionCorrespondentietesten
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics
EditorsKlaus Zimmerman
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Pages1-19
Number of pages19
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-57365-6
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Publication statusPublished - 31 Jan 2022

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