This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $403,882 to Rutgers, The State University to develop improved methods for designing and analyzing audit experiments. Audit experiments are commonly used to test for discriminatory behavior but can be confounded by multiple interventions. This award will support research to disentangle causal effects by incorporating potential confounders as additional interventions. The recipient will apply the new methods to study effects of race and socioeconomics on access to legal services. Additionally, $50,000 of the award is subgranted to Northwestern University to support application of the methods to racial discrimination in access to justice. The research aims to advance understanding of discrimination in the legal system by March 2025.
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