My working papers examine various aspects of discrimination. They focus on measuring it in new contexts and sometimes for understudied identity groups, developing better methodological approaches for measuring discrimination, and testing ways of decreasing it.
My works in progress draw on my experiences in extreme poverty and mainly focus on understanding the attitudes (political and otherwise) of individuals facing food and housing needs and what the public thinks of them. This work is housed in a new lab, the Fundamental Needs Lab, and represents, in many ways, both the joining of my personal experiences and research and also the culmination of my years working on human rights and discrimination.
I also have some projects that examine disability discrimination, building on my years living in a group home for people with developmental disabilities and my work with the disabled community in Colorado. In addition to these substantive areas, I’m also working on several methods projects that introduce new ways of measuring discrimination, human rights, inclusivity, and other important social science concepts. If you’re interested in collaborating on these topics, please get in touch!
* = student author when the project started; five-year impact factors listed for journals outside political science
Select working papers
- Volha Chykina, Charles Crabtree, and Kiyotero Tsutsui. “Measuring Rights and Inclusivity across American Universities.” (Revise and resubmit at Nature Human Behavior.)
- S. Michael Gaddis, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Steven Pfaff. “Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Heterogeneity Across Schools in the U.S. Public Education System: A Correspondence Audit of Principals.” (Revise and resubmit at Sociology of Education.)
- S. Michael Gaddis, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Steven Pfaff. “Local Political Party Voting Context Moderates Public School Principals’ Levels of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination.” (Revise and resubmit at Politics, Groups, and Identities)
- Paul Christensen, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Charles Crabtree, and Charles T. McClean. “Tell Me (Not So Little) Lies: Japan, the SDGs, and the Performance of Global Legitimacy.” (Revise and resubmit at Social Science Japan Journal)
- Tiffany D. Barnes, Charles Crabtree, Akitaka Matsuo, and Yoshi Ono. “Women Use More Positive Language than Men: Candidates’ Strategic Use of Emotive Language in Election Campaigns.” (Under review)
- Charles Crabtree, Trevor Incerti, Rieko Kage, Frances Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka, Hikaru Yamagishi. “Workers are Willing to Trade Wages for Better Harassment Reporting Procedures.” (Under review)
- S. Michael Gaddis, A. Nicole Kreisberg, and Charles Crabtree. “Assessing Immigrant Generational Status from Names: Evidence for Experiments Examining Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Discrimination.”
- S. Michael Gaddis, Edvard Nergård Larsen, Charles Crabtree, and John B. Holbein. “Discrimination Against Black and Hispanic Americans is Highest in Hiring and Housing Contexts: A Meta-Analysis of Correspondence Audits.”
- Charles Crabtree, S. Michael Gaddis, and John B. Holbein. “How Should Researchers Signal Race in Experimental Studies of Discrimination? Compliance, Ecological Validity, and Information Equivalence in Experimental Studies of Discrimination.”
- Charles Crabtree and Abu Afzal Tauheed*. "Indian Firms Discriminate Against Applicants Based on their Caste and Religion.”
Select works in progress
- Charles Crabtree, Kostanca Dhima, and Sona Golder. “Increasing the Social and Scientific Returns of Audit Studies.”
- S. Michael Gaddis, Natasha Quadin, Edvard Nergård Larsen, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Nanum Jeon. “Intersectional Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of Gendered Racial Discrimination and Racialized Gender Discrimination using Correspondence Audits.”
- Charles Crabtree and Yujin Woo. “Public Perceptions of Return Migrants in Ethno-Cultural East Asia: Evidence from Survey Experiments in China, South Korea, and Taiwan.”
- Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Alphabetical Author Order Disadvantages Scholars Differentially Across Country of Origins.”
- Quintin Beazer and Charles Crabtree. “How Does Language Use Influence Perceptions of Discrimination? Experimental Evidence from Latvia.”
- Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo. “Decreasing Discrimination against Asians.”
- Mitchell Bosley, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Semra Sevi. “Do Conversations with AI Influence Beliefs about Trans Rights?”
- Charles Crabtree and Cindi SturtzSreetharan. “The Birthrate is Declining! It is Important to Have an Environment Where More Women Can Give Birth and Work Afterwards!': What Survey Data from Japan Tells Us about Gender (In)equality as a (Non)pressing Issue.”
- Charles Crabtree. “Extreme Poverty and Political Attitudes."
- Charles Crabtree and many others. “Beyond #firstgen: Reconsidering Economic Disadvantage."
- Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. “LLMs Should Not be Used to Create Synthetic Data for Poor Folks.”
- Charles Crabtree, Bart Bonikowski, and John B. Holbein. “Attention Checks Punish the Poor and Uneducated: Evidence from 50 Surveys Across 25 Countries.”