Correspondence Audit Studies in Public Administration: A systematic review with commentary
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https://doi.org/10.30636/jbpa.71.345Keywords:
audit studies, correspondence review, field experimentAbstract
Correspondence audit studies are becoming more prevalent in the field of Public Administration (PA). We explain the benefits and limitations of audit studies and provide a systematic literature review of PA audit studies. Our systematic review includes journal articles written in English and containing audit studies in PA that were gathered from highly ranked PA journals, and also forward and reverse citations of relevant prominent articles. We summarize the frequency of topics and other selected aspects of the 90 included articles. We then discuss common concerns with audit studies both in PA and more generally. Finally, we discuss future directions for these kinds of studies that go beyond the standard measures of discrimination between two groups.
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