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, tho...
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| author | Charles Crabtree Jae Yeon Kim S. Michael Gaddis John B. Holbein Cameron Guage William W. Marx |
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| description | 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, our data include over 44,170 name evaluations from 4,026 respondents for 600 names. In addition to respondent perceptions of race, income, education, and citizenship from names, our data also include respondent characteristics. Our data will be broadly helpful for researchers conducting experiments on the manifold ways in which race shapes American life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c5ed544465a4d179c42d67fcfd22a7d2023-03-22T10:23:23ZengNature PortfolioScientific Data2052-44632023-03-0110111010.1038/s41597-023-01947-0Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicityCharles Crabtree0Jae Yeon Kim1S. Michael Gaddis2John B. Holbein3Cameron Guage4William W. Marx5Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth CollegeAssistant Research Scholar, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins UniversitySenior Research Scientist, NWEA Research, Portland, OR, 97209; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California – Los AngelesAssociate Professor, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of VirginiaDartmouth CollegeDartmouth CollegeAbstract 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, our data include over 44,170 name evaluations from 4,026 respondents for 600 names. In addition to respondent perceptions of race, income, education, and citizenship from names, our data also include respondent characteristics. Our data will be broadly helpful for researchers conducting experiments on the manifold ways in which race shapes American life.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01947-0 |
| spellingShingle | Charles Crabtree Jae Yeon Kim S. Michael Gaddis John B. Holbein Cameron Guage William W. Marx Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity Scientific Data |
| title | Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity |
| title_full | Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity |
| title_short | Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity |
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| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01947-0 |
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