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Research

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.

Fundamental Needs Lab

My current work on class discrimination and fundamental needs is housed in the Fundamental Needs Lab, joining my personal experiences with my research on human rights and discrimination.

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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 working on several methodological projects that introduce new ways of measuring discrimination, human rights, inclusivity, and other important social science concepts.

Working papers and manuscripts

Revise and Resubmit

(5 papers)

1. Volha Chykina, Charles Crabtree, and Kiyotero Tsutsui. "Measuring Rights and Inclusivity across American Universities." (Revised and resubmitted at Nature Human Behavior.)

2. Mitchell Bosley, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Semra Sevi. "Do Conversations with AI Influence Beliefs about Trans Rights?" (Revised and resubmitted twice at PNAS Nexus.)

3. Andreas Wimmer, Bart Bonikowski, Charles Crabtree, Matt Golder, Kiyoteru Tsutsui. "The Shadow Side of Rootedness: How Geographic Stability Across Generations Increases Radical-Right Attitudes." (Revise and resubmit at American Journal of Sociology.)

4. 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.)

5. Charles Crabtree, Paul Christensen, Tom Le, Charles T. McClean, Lauren McKee, and Cindi SturtzSreetharan. "'The Birthrate's Declining! Create an Environment Where Women Can Give Birth and Work Afterwards!': Survey Data about Gender (In)equality as a (Non)pressing Issue in Japan." (Revise and submit at Japan Forum).

Under Review

(14 papers)

1. S. Michael Gaddis, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Steven Pfaff. "When Access Isn't Equal: Racial Discrimination and Resource Need in U.S. Schools."

2. 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."

3. Charles Crabtree, Trevor Incerti, Rieko Kage, Frances Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka, Hikaru Yamagishi. "Sexual Harassment in Japan: Willingness to Pay for Best Practices."

4. Akira Igarashi, Charles Crabtree, and Yoshikuni Ono. "Beyond Language Proficiency: Understanding the Role of National Identification in Shaping Attitudes toward Immigrants."

5. Helen V. Milner, Duy Trinh, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and Charles Crabtree. "Globalization and the Great Divergence in Populist Attitudes."

6. Jayanth V. Uppaluri and Charles Crabtree. "Who Deserves What? Disability Policy and Public Opinion."

7. Charles Crabtree, Kostanca Dhima, and Sona Golder. "Increasing the Social and Scientific Returns of Audit Studies."

8. Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "AI's Democratizing Potential in Higher Education."

9. Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "Accounting for Time and Space in Empirical Studies."

10. Margarita Solntseva and Charles Crabtree. "Attention to Women's Rights in NGO Press Releases, 1996–2018: A Curated, Coded Dataset of Organizational Attention to Women and Violence Against Women."

11. Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo. "Micro-Inequities Against Asian Americans: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment."

12. 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."

13. Charles Crabtree and Yujin Woo. "Are Japanese People Accepting of Migrants as Their Fellow Citizens?"

14. Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. "Alphabetical Author Order Disadvantages Scholars Differentially Across Country of Origins."

Books in Progress

(1 book)

1. Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Charles Crabtree. Human Rights in Japan.

Works in Progress

(Select projects)

Class Discrimination and Fundamental Needs:

  • Charles Crabtree. "Extreme Poverty and Political Attitudes: New Survey Evidence from South America."
  • Charles Crabtree, Will Elliot, John B. Holbein, and Jayanth Uppaluri. "What Does the Public Want in College Admissions? Citizens' Views on How Merit, Class, Place of Origin, Disability, and Race Should Shape Who Gets In."
  • Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Bart Bonikowski. "Attention Checks Measure More Than Attention: Comparing Class Bias Across Survey Quality Indicators."

Discrimination and Bias:

  • Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, and Surili Sheth. "Do Museums Highlighting the Experiences of Minorities Persuade Visitors? Reducing Biases Against Asian Americans."
  • Ali Çarkoğlu and Charles Crabtree. "The Institutional Geography of Discrimination: Multi-Domain Perceptions of Ethnic and Sectarian Minorities in Turkey."
  • Akira Igarashi, Yoshikuni Ono, Hatsuru Morita, and Charles Crabtree. "Public Demand for Police Discrimination: How Misperceptions Drive Support for Biased Policing in Japan."
  • Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo. "Forever Foreign? Differential Linguistic Assimilation Standards for Asian Immigrants."
  • Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, S. Michael Gaddis. "Shifting Paradigms: Nine Decades of Identity and Discrimination Scholarship in Academic Research."

Japan and East Asia:

  • Charles Crabtree and Kiho Muroga. "Policy Over Demography: Gender, Ideology, and Candidate Choice in Japan."
  • Yuya Endo, Charles Crabtree, and Yoshikuni Ono. "Fooled by Facial Appearance: Candidate Gender, Facial Dominance, and Voter Bias."
  • Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Maya Lu, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo. "Measuring Anti-Asian Discrimination around the Globe."
  • Peter Chai and Charles Crabtree. "Japan's Multiparty Turn and the Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Immigration, and the Rise of Sanseito."

Methodology and Research Design:

  • Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "Attention as a Design Parameter in Survey Experiments: ITT vs. Attentive-Only with Sensitivity Guidance."
  • Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "Stop Designing for Universal Attentiveness."
  • Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "When the Model Changes: A Simple Drift Audit for LLM-Assisted Research."

Human Rights and Political Behavior:

  • Charles Crabtree, Kristen Kao, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen, Jean Lachapelle, Milan Obaidi, and Tore Wig. "Improving the Ethics of Surveys on Authoritarianism and Political Violence."
  • Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Yao Xu, and Charles Crabtree. "It's the Economy, Populists! The Micro-foundation of Populism in 22 Democracies."
  • Ray Block, Charles Crabtree, Kostanca Dhima, Matt Golder, and Sona Golder. "Group Consciousness, Political Attitudes, and Political Behavior: Conceptualization and Measurement."
  • Ray Block, Charles Crabtree, Kostanca Dhima, Matt Golder, and Sona Golder. "Linked Fate, Political Attitudes, and Political Behavior."
  • Kiyotero Tsutsui, Matthias Koenig, and Charles Crabtree. "From Nationalism to Multiculturalism? Constitutional Provisions on Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Diversity, 1789 to 2010."
  • Volha Chykina, Charles Crabtree, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. "Student Support for Contentious Policies on Campus: A Backlash Against International Human Rights Norms."
  • Charles Crabtree, Alice Chong, Masanori Kikuchi, Erika Kojima, Atsushi Tago, and Katrina Zuluaga. "International Pressure Does Not Increase Public Support for Anti-Discrimination Laws."

Identity and Representation:

  • Raimondas Ibenskas, Charles Crabtree, Sona N. Golder, Paulina Sałek-Lipcean, and Allan Sikk. "Electoral Consequences of Legislative Party Switching."
  • Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Maya Lu, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, and Volha Chykina. "Beyond Incomplete Recognition: How University Statements Can Be Meaningful for Students Even Without Structural Change."
  • Quintin Beazer, Charles Crabtree, and Timothy M. Frye. "How Does Language Use Influence Perceptions of Discrimination? Experimental Evidence from Estonia and Latvia."
  • Bart Bonikowski, Charles Crabtree, Matt Golder, Helen Milner, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and Andreas Wimmer. "Measuring Populism: Evidence from 22 Countries."

Political Economy and Global Issues:

  • Mo Gasmi, Helen V. Milner, Kiyoteru Tsutsui, and Charles Crabtree. "Economic Dislocation and Political Discontent: Does Manufacturing Decline Drive Populism in Japan?"
  • Liana Eustacia Reyes, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Dmitrii Kofanov, and Charles Crabtree. "Post-Conflict Constitution Making: Causes and Consequences for Peace."
  • Mitsuhito Aso, Charles Crabtree, Hikaru Nukui, Atsushi Tago. "How Costly Are Political Scandals for Women? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Japan."

Teaching and Pedagogy:

  • Charles Crabtree, Amanda Graham, Mikhail Gronas, and Ainsley Morse. "Learning Positionality: Insights from Field-Based Political Science Education."
  • Charles Crabtree. "Padlet for Active Learning in Political Science: AI-Generated Assignments, Peer Engagement, and Exportable Artifacts."
  • Charles Crabtree, Lucas Swaine, and Benjamin A. Valentino. "From Syllabus to Defense: A Program-Level Blueprint for Political Science Honors Theses."
  • Charles Crabtree. "Using Notion as a Portable Course Hub and Syllabus Platform."
  • Charles Crabtree. "Watching, Noticing, and Counting: Using YouTube Gaming Videos to Build Social Inquiry Skills in Elementary Classrooms."
  • Charles Crabtree. "Teaching Outside One's Field: Reflections, Practices, and Tools for Instructors."

Other Projects:

  • Charles Crabtree. "Can a Shared History Decrease Ethnic Discrimination? Experimental Evidence from the Former Yugoslavia and Japan."
  • Charles Crabtree and many others. "Addressing 'firstgen' Issues in the Field."
  • Ray Block, Charles Crabtree, and Matt Golder. "Descriptive and Substantive Representation."
  • Charles Crabtree and Ray Block. "How Public Opinion Shapes Discriminatory Policing."
  • Charles Crabtree and Zarina Vakhitova. "Blue Sentiment: Black Lives Matter Protests and Changes in Law Enforcement Forum Discourse."
  • Charles Crabtree and Zarina Vakhitova. "Divided by the Badge: How State Political Control Shapes Police Communication Strategies on Social Media."

Interested in collaborating? I'm looking for research partners on class discrimination, fundamental needs, and methodological innovation.

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