ECIN Replication Package for "Monitoring Decreases Discrimination"

This study investigates whether awareness of monitoring or participation in a research study affects racial discrimination in hiring-related decisions. Participants recruited from an online crowdsourcing platform in the United States evaluated six résumés that varied in race, gender, work experience, education, skills, and interests. The study includes three conditions: a Control condition in which participants believed they were assisting with a recruitment task, a Monitoring condition in which participants were told their evaluations would be reviewed, and an Experiment condition in which participants were informed they were taking part in an academic study. The data include résumé ratings, secondary skill assessments, measures of participant engagement, demographic characteristics, political orientation, and responses to questions concerning beliefs about the causes of racial inequality and support for affirmative action. Data were collected between April and August 2020. The study was designed to examine the extent to which monitoring and experimental awareness influence racial score differentials and to explore heterogeneity in discriminatory behavior across individuals.