Do public officials exhibit social class biases when they handle casework? Evidence from multiple correspondence experiments

Nicholas Carnes; John Holbein

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0214244

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Do public officials exhibit social class biases when they handle casework? Evidence from multiple correspondence experiments

Nicholas Carnes ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Carnes, John Holbein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nicholas.carnes@duke.edu

Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America
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John Holbein

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Carnes, John Holbein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5099-3395

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Do public officials exhibit social class biases when they handle casework? Evidence from multiple correspondence experiments

Nicholas Carnes,
John Holbein

Published: March 27, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214244

About the Authors

Nicholas Carnes

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Carnes, John Holbein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nicholas.carnes@duke.edu

Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

John Holbein

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Carnes, John Holbein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5099-3395

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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