M Gaddi
Biographic Data
| ID | 16774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Gaddi |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaddi |
| SIGNATURE | GADDI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3467-878X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Examining Attitudes toward Asians throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic with Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Experiments
This study examines how COVID-induced and general attitudes toward Asians have changed over the course of the pandemic using nationally representative survey experiments in 2020 and 2022. First, we measured COVID-induced anti-Asian attitudes as the effect of a treatment reminding respondents of the pandemic on whether respondents would be willing to live or work with someone who is East or South Asian. The results suggest that the COVID-19 treatm…
Changes over Time in Covid-19 Vaccination Inequalities in Eight Large U.S. Cities
The authors estimate the associations between community socioeconomic composition and changes in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination levels in eight large cities at three time points. In March, communities with high socioeconomic status (SES) had significantly higher vaccination rates than low-SES communities. Between March and April, low-SES communities had significantly lower changes in percentage vaccinated than high-SES communitie…
The influence of feminist abortion accompaniment on emotions related to abortion: A longitudinal observational study in Mexico
Emotions can reflect how individuals internalize identities, social roles, and broader power structures, including abortion stigma. Abortion accompaniment, in the form of logistical, informational, and emotional support offered by individuals and organizations, takes a person-centered, feminist, and rights-based approach. We tested the extent to which abortion accompaniment may decrease negative and increase positive feelings an individual holds …
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class
Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race or ethnicity. The evidence that these studies provide about racial discrimination depends on the assumption that the names researchers use differ only based on perceived race and not some other factor. In this article, we assess this common assumption using data from five different studies (n = 1,004; 2,002; 1,035; 5,631;…
Covid-19 Vaccine Rollouts and the Reproduction of Urban Spatial Inequality: Disparities Within Large US Cities in March and April 2021 by Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition
Rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA were opportunities to redress disparities that surfaced during the pandemic. Initial eligibility criteria, however, neglected geographic, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic considerations. Marginalized populations may have faced barriers to then-scarce vaccines, reinforcing disparities. Inequalities may have subsided as eligibility expanded. Using spatial modeling, we investigate how strongly local vaccinati…
The Generational Boundaries of Educational Advantage: Does Great-Grandparent Educational Attainment Predict Great-Grandchild Early Academic Achievement
It remains unclear how far back the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage operates because most inquiries are limited to two or three generations. In this study, the authors use four generations of family data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the association of great-grandparents’ educational attainment with their great-grandchildren’s early academic achievement, net of intervening generations’ educational atta…
Ms of 3G: Testing three mechanisms of three-generational educational mobility in the U. S
Searching for a Roommate: A Correspondence Audit Examining Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Discrimination among Millennials
Survey research finds that millennials have less prejudiced views of racial/ethnic minorities than other generations, leading some to label millennials as postracial. However, attitudinal survey research may be subject to social desirability bias because it documents statements or beliefs instead of actions. Moreover, most audit studies focus on people who make hiring decisions or own rental property and are therefore often older than millennials…
Variations in endorsed and perceived mental health treatment stigma across U.S. higher education institutions
This study examines the association between six higher education institutional-level characteristics (institutional type, enrollment size, sector, housing, admissions selectivity, and graduation rate) and individual endorsed and perceived mental health treatment stigma scores among college students. We use nine years (2009-2017) of data from the Healthy Minds Study and our analysis sample includes 89,644 students at 105 unique institutions. We fi…
Job Characteristics, Job Preferences, and Physical and Mental Health in Later Life
Existing research linking socioeconomic status with work focuses primarily on the precursors (educational attainment) and outcomes (income) of work, rather than asking how diverse facets of work influence health. Using four waves of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, the authors evaluate whether multiple measures of respondent job characteristics, respondent preferences for those characteristics, and their interaction substantially impro…
Understanding the "How" and "Why" Aspects of Racial-Ethnic Discrimination: A Multimethod Approach to Audit Studies
Researchers have used audit studies to provide causal evidence of racial discrimination for nearly 60 years. Although audits are an excellent methodological tool to investigate the "what," "where," and "when" aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination, audits are less appropriate, by themselves, to investigate the "how" and "why" aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination. In this article, I review why audit studies are necessary to study racial-ethnic…
An Introduction to Audit Studies in the Social Sciences
Contextualizing public stigma: Endorsed mental health treatment stigma on college and university campuses
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies
Online correspondence audit studies have emerged as the primary method to examine racial discrimination. Although audits use distinctive names to signal race, few studies scientifically examine data regarding the perception of race from names. Different names treated as black or white may be perceived in heterogeneous ways. I conduct a survey experiment that asks respondents to identify the race they associate with a series of names. I alter the …
I Don't Agree with Giving Cash”: A Survey Experiment Examining Support for Public Assistance
Objective Existing research on support for anti‐poverty programs largely focuses on broad categories of welfare. In this article, we examine variations in support across different public assistance programs. Methods We use an experimental survey design to examine whether support for public assistance is dependent on the type of aid offered. Results We find that programs that offer benefits in‐kind are more popular than cash transfers. Moreover, f…
Racial/Ethnic Perceptions from Hispanic Names: Selecting Names to Test for Discrimination
Researchers increasingly use correspondence audit studies to study racial/ethnic discrimination in employment, housing, and other domains. Although this method provides strong causal evidence of racial/ethnic discrimination, these claims depend on the signal being clearly conveyed through names. Few studies have pretested individual racial and ethnic perceptions of the names used to examine discrimination. The author conducts a survey experiment …
Arab American Housing Discrimination, Ethnic Competition, and the Contact Hypothesis
This study uses a field experiment to study bias against living with Arab American women, a group whose position in the U.S. race system remains uncertain. We developed fictitious female white and Arab American identities and used the audit method to respond to 560 roommate-wanted advertisements in four metro areas: Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, and Houston. To focus on social-rather than purely economic-biases, all responses identified the sen…
Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market
Racial inequality in economic outcomes, particularly among the college educated, persists throughout US society. Scholars debate whether this inequality stems from racial differences in human capital (e.g., college selectivity, GPA, college major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining th…
School accountability and the black-white test score gap
Exposure to Classroom Poverty and Test Score Achievement: Contextual Effects or Selection
It is widely believed that impoverished contexts harm children. Disentangling the effects of family background from the effects of other social contexts, however, is complex, making causal claims difficult to verify. This study examines the effect of exposure to classroom poverty on student test achievement using data on a cohort of children followed from third through eighth grade. Cross-sectional methods reveal a substantial negative associatio…
The influence of habitus in the relationship between cultural capital and academic achievement
What's in a Relationship? An Examination of Social Capital, Race and Class in Mentoring Relationships
After 25 years of intense scrutiny, social capital remains an important yet highly debated concept in social science research. This research uses data from youth and mentors in several chapters of Big Brothers/Big Sisters to assess the importance of different mentoring relationship characteristics in creating positive outcomes among youths. The literature on social capital suggests that key characteristics are: (1. the amount of time spent betwee…
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies
Online correspondence audit studies have emerged as the primary method to examine racial discrimination. Although audits use distinctive names to signal race, few studies scientifically examine data regarding the perception of race from names. Different names treated as black or white may be perceived in heterogeneous ways. I conduct a survey experiment that asks respondents to identify the race they associate with a series of names. I alter the …
Racial/Ethnic Perceptions from Hispanic Names: Selecting Names to Test for Discrimination
Researchers increasingly use correspondence audit studies to study racial/ethnic discrimination in employment, housing, and other domains. Although this method provides strong causal evidence of racial/ethnic discrimination, these claims depend on the signal being clearly conveyed through names. Few studies have pretested individual racial and ethnic perceptions of the names used to examine discrimination. The author conducts a survey experiment …
Exposure to Classroom Poverty and Test Score Achievement: Contextual Effects or Selection
It is widely believed that impoverished contexts harm children. Disentangling the effects of family background from the effects of other social contexts, however, is complex, making causal claims difficult to verify. This study examines the effect of exposure to classroom poverty on student test achievement using data on a cohort of children followed from third through eighth grade. Cross-sectional methods reveal a substantial negative associatio…
The influence of habitus in the relationship between cultural capital and academic achievement
Arab American Housing Discrimination, Ethnic Competition, and the Contact Hypothesis
This study uses a field experiment to study bias against living with Arab American women, a group whose position in the U.S. race system remains uncertain. We developed fictitious female white and Arab American identities and used the audit method to respond to 560 roommate-wanted advertisements in four metro areas: Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, and Houston. To focus on social-rather than purely economic-biases, all responses identified the sen…
Understanding the "How" and "Why" Aspects of Racial-Ethnic Discrimination: A Multimethod Approach to Audit Studies
Researchers have used audit studies to provide causal evidence of racial discrimination for nearly 60 years. Although audits are an excellent methodological tool to investigate the "what," "where," and "when" aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination, audits are less appropriate, by themselves, to investigate the "how" and "why" aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination. In this article, I review why audit studies are necessary to study racial-ethnic…
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class
Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race or ethnicity. The evidence that these studies provide about racial discrimination depends on the assumption that the names researchers use differ only based on perceived race and not some other factor. In this article, we assess this common assumption using data from five different studies (n = 1,004; 2,002; 1,035; 5,631;…
Searching for a Roommate: A Correspondence Audit Examining Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Discrimination among Millennials
Survey research finds that millennials have less prejudiced views of racial/ethnic minorities than other generations, leading some to label millennials as postracial. However, attitudinal survey research may be subject to social desirability bias because it documents statements or beliefs instead of actions. Moreover, most audit studies focus on people who make hiring decisions or own rental property and are therefore often older than millennials…
Ms of 3G: Testing three mechanisms of three-generational educational mobility in the U. S
Contextualizing public stigma: Endorsed mental health treatment stigma on college and university campuses
School accountability and the black-white test score gap
Covid-19 Vaccine Rollouts and the Reproduction of Urban Spatial Inequality: Disparities Within Large US Cities in March and April 2021 by Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition
Rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA were opportunities to redress disparities that surfaced during the pandemic. Initial eligibility criteria, however, neglected geographic, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic considerations. Marginalized populations may have faced barriers to then-scarce vaccines, reinforcing disparities. Inequalities may have subsided as eligibility expanded. Using spatial modeling, we investigate how strongly local vaccinati…
I Don't Agree with Giving Cash”: A Survey Experiment Examining Support for Public Assistance
Objective Existing research on support for anti‐poverty programs largely focuses on broad categories of welfare. In this article, we examine variations in support across different public assistance programs. Methods We use an experimental survey design to examine whether support for public assistance is dependent on the type of aid offered. Results We find that programs that offer benefits in‐kind are more popular than cash transfers. Moreover, f…
What's in a Relationship? An Examination of Social Capital, Race and Class in Mentoring Relationships
After 25 years of intense scrutiny, social capital remains an important yet highly debated concept in social science research. This research uses data from youth and mentors in several chapters of Big Brothers/Big Sisters to assess the importance of different mentoring relationship characteristics in creating positive outcomes among youths. The literature on social capital suggests that key characteristics are: (1. the amount of time spent betwee…
Exposure to Classroom Poverty and Test Score Achievement: Contextual Effects or Selection
It is widely believed that impoverished contexts harm children. Disentangling the effects of family background from the effects of other social contexts, however, is complex, making causal claims difficult to verify. This study examines the effect of exposure to classroom poverty on student test achievement using data on a cohort of children followed from third through eighth grade. Cross-sectional methods reveal a substantial negative associatio…
The influence of habitus in the relationship between cultural capital and academic achievement
Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market
Racial inequality in economic outcomes, particularly among the college educated, persists throughout US society. Scholars debate whether this inequality stems from racial differences in human capital (e.g., college selectivity, GPA, college major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining th…
School accountability and the black-white test score gap
Arab American Housing Discrimination, Ethnic Competition, and the Contact Hypothesis
This study uses a field experiment to study bias against living with Arab American women, a group whose position in the U.S. race system remains uncertain. We developed fictitious female white and Arab American identities and used the audit method to respond to 560 roommate-wanted advertisements in four metro areas: Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, and Houston. To focus on social-rather than purely economic-biases, all responses identified the sen…
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies
Online correspondence audit studies have emerged as the primary method to examine racial discrimination. Although audits use distinctive names to signal race, few studies scientifically examine data regarding the perception of race from names. Different names treated as black or white may be perceived in heterogeneous ways. I conduct a survey experiment that asks respondents to identify the race they associate with a series of names. I alter the …
I Don't Agree with Giving Cash”: A Survey Experiment Examining Support for Public Assistance
Objective Existing research on support for anti‐poverty programs largely focuses on broad categories of welfare. In this article, we examine variations in support across different public assistance programs. Methods We use an experimental survey design to examine whether support for public assistance is dependent on the type of aid offered. Results We find that programs that offer benefits in‐kind are more popular than cash transfers. Moreover, f…
Racial/Ethnic Perceptions from Hispanic Names: Selecting Names to Test for Discrimination
Researchers increasingly use correspondence audit studies to study racial/ethnic discrimination in employment, housing, and other domains. Although this method provides strong causal evidence of racial/ethnic discrimination, these claims depend on the signal being clearly conveyed through names. Few studies have pretested individual racial and ethnic perceptions of the names used to examine discrimination. The author conducts a survey experiment …
An Introduction to Audit Studies in the Social Sciences
Contextualizing public stigma: Endorsed mental health treatment stigma on college and university campuses
Variations in endorsed and perceived mental health treatment stigma across U.S. higher education institutions
This study examines the association between six higher education institutional-level characteristics (institutional type, enrollment size, sector, housing, admissions selectivity, and graduation rate) and individual endorsed and perceived mental health treatment stigma scores among college students. We use nine years (2009-2017) of data from the Healthy Minds Study and our analysis sample includes 89,644 students at 105 unique institutions. We fi…
Job Characteristics, Job Preferences, and Physical and Mental Health in Later Life
Existing research linking socioeconomic status with work focuses primarily on the precursors (educational attainment) and outcomes (income) of work, rather than asking how diverse facets of work influence health. Using four waves of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, the authors evaluate whether multiple measures of respondent job characteristics, respondent preferences for those characteristics, and their interaction substantially impro…
Understanding the "How" and "Why" Aspects of Racial-Ethnic Discrimination: A Multimethod Approach to Audit Studies
Researchers have used audit studies to provide causal evidence of racial discrimination for nearly 60 years. Although audits are an excellent methodological tool to investigate the "what," "where," and "when" aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination, audits are less appropriate, by themselves, to investigate the "how" and "why" aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination. In this article, I review why audit studies are necessary to study racial-ethnic…
Ms of 3G: Testing three mechanisms of three-generational educational mobility in the U. S
Searching for a Roommate: A Correspondence Audit Examining Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Discrimination among Millennials
Survey research finds that millennials have less prejudiced views of racial/ethnic minorities than other generations, leading some to label millennials as postracial. However, attitudinal survey research may be subject to social desirability bias because it documents statements or beliefs instead of actions. Moreover, most audit studies focus on people who make hiring decisions or own rental property and are therefore often older than millennials…
The Generational Boundaries of Educational Advantage: Does Great-Grandparent Educational Attainment Predict Great-Grandchild Early Academic Achievement
It remains unclear how far back the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage operates because most inquiries are limited to two or three generations. In this study, the authors use four generations of family data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the association of great-grandparents’ educational attainment with their great-grandchildren’s early academic achievement, net of intervening generations’ educational atta…
The influence of feminist abortion accompaniment on emotions related to abortion: A longitudinal observational study in Mexico
Emotions can reflect how individuals internalize identities, social roles, and broader power structures, including abortion stigma. Abortion accompaniment, in the form of logistical, informational, and emotional support offered by individuals and organizations, takes a person-centered, feminist, and rights-based approach. We tested the extent to which abortion accompaniment may decrease negative and increase positive feelings an individual holds …
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class
Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race or ethnicity. The evidence that these studies provide about racial discrimination depends on the assumption that the names researchers use differ only based on perceived race and not some other factor. In this article, we assess this common assumption using data from five different studies (n = 1,004; 2,002; 1,035; 5,631;…
Covid-19 Vaccine Rollouts and the Reproduction of Urban Spatial Inequality: Disparities Within Large US Cities in March and April 2021 by Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition
Rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA were opportunities to redress disparities that surfaced during the pandemic. Initial eligibility criteria, however, neglected geographic, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic considerations. Marginalized populations may have faced barriers to then-scarce vaccines, reinforcing disparities. Inequalities may have subsided as eligibility expanded. Using spatial modeling, we investigate how strongly local vaccinati…
Changes over Time in Covid-19 Vaccination Inequalities in Eight Large U.S. Cities
The authors estimate the associations between community socioeconomic composition and changes in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination levels in eight large cities at three time points. In March, communities with high socioeconomic status (SES) had significantly higher vaccination rates than low-SES communities. Between March and April, low-SES communities had significantly lower changes in percentage vaccinated than high-SES communitie…
Examining Attitudes toward Asians throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic with Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Experiments
This study examines how COVID-induced and general attitudes toward Asians have changed over the course of the pandemic using nationally representative survey experiments in 2020 and 2022. First, we measured COVID-induced anti-Asian attitudes as the effect of a treatment reminding respondents of the pandemic on whether respondents would be willing to live or work with someone who is East or South Asian. The results suggest that the COVID-19 treatm…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Demography (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works)