3 papers
stat.ME2025
Analysis and sample-size determination for audit experiments with binary response and application to identification of effect of racial discrimination on access to justice
Nicole Pashley, Brian Libgober, Tirthankar Dasgupta
Social scientists have increasingly turned to audit experiments to investigate discrimination in the market for jobs, loans, housing and other opportunities. In a typical audit exp…
stat.ME2023
Optimal allocation of sample size for randomization-based inference from factorial designs
Arun Ravichandran, Nicole E. Pashley, Brian Libgober +1
Optimizing the allocation of units into treatment groups can help researchers improve the precision of causal estimators and decrease costs when running factorial experiments. Howe…
stat.AP2019
An Email Experiment to Identify the Effect of Racial Discrimination on Access to Lawyers: A Statistical Approach
Brian Libgober, Tirthankar Dasgupta
We consider the problem of conducting an experiment to study the prevalence of racial bias against individuals seeking legal assistance, in particular whether lawyers use clues abo…