Our working papers and projects cover four broad research areas. We list below some of the papers and projects we're working on related to these areas. If you're interested in collaborating on these topics, please get in touch with us!
* = student author when the project started
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Measuring and Addressing Class-Based Discrimination (i.e. Povertyism)
- 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." (Revise and resubmit at Sociology of Education.)
- Charles Crabtree, S. Michael Gaddis, John B. Holbein. "Local Political Party Voting Context Moderates Public School Principals' Levels of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination." (Revise and resubmit at Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.)
- Charles Crabtree and Abu Afzal Tauheed*. "Indian Firms Discriminate Against Applicants Based on Their Caste and Religion."
- Charles Crabtree. "What Drives Countries to Adopt Constitutions That Guarantee Fundamental Needs?"
- Charles Crabtree. "Making Homelessness Illegal."
- Charles Crabtree. "Issue Framing and Homelessness: Evidence from U.S. Congress Floor Speeches and Email Newsletters."
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Improving How We Measure Public Opinion of the Poor and Uneducated
- Charles Crabtree. "Extreme Poverty and Political Attitudes: New Survey Evidence from South America."
- Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "LLMs Should Not Be Used to Create Synthetic Data for Poor Folks."
- Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Bart Bonikowski. "Attention Checks Measure More Than Attention: Comparing Class Bias Across Survey Quality Indicators."
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Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of Homeless People
- Homeless Nation — a public and scholarly project designed to record, elevate, and learn from homeless voices. Goal: understand homeless attitudes and give a platform for their concerns. Approach: descriptive and inductive. Research design: semi-structured interviews of homeless folks across a wide range of countries (currently prepping for interviews in the U.S., Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Lithuania, and Japan). The largest study of homeless folks ever.
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Addressing #Firstgen Issues and Representation in the Academy
- Charles Crabtree and many others. "#Firstgen in Political Science."
- Charles Crabtree and Jayanth Uppalari. "Examining Diversity in University Equal Opportunity Statements."
- Charles Crabtree. "#Firstgen and Attrition Patterns Among U.S. Faculty."
- Charles Crabtree and many others. "Student Financial Background, Feelings of Belonging, and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Multi-Lab Study."