My working papers examine various aspects of intergroup relations and conflict. They primarily focus on measuring discrimination in new contexts and for understudied identity groups, developing more effective methodological approaches for measuring discrimination, and exploring ways to reduce it.
My works in progress draw on my experiences in extreme poverty and primarily focus on understanding the attitudes (political and otherwise) of individuals facing food and housing needs, as well as 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.” (Revised and resubmitted 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)
- 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.” (Revise and resubmit at Journal of Politics.)
- S. Michael Gaddis, A. Nicole Kreisberg, and Charles Crabtree. “Assessing Immigrant Generational Status from Names: Evidence for Experiments Examining Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Discrimination.” (Revise and resubmit at Demography.)
- 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, 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.”
- 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. “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.”