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 discrimination, the evidence from audit studies, and their limitations. I then argue that scholars should adopt a multimethod approach to audit studies to move from documenting the existence of racial-ethnic discrimination to examining how and why racial-ethnic discrimination occurs. Adoption of this multimethod approach will result in a deeper understanding of racial-ethnic discrimination with the potential to shape both opinions and policy surrounding discrimination.

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理解种族歧视的“如何”和“为什么”：审计研究的一种多方法方法

研究人员使用审计研究来提供种族歧视的因果证据已有近60年的历史了。尽管审计是一种很好的方法论工具，可以用来调查种族歧视的“什么”，“何处”和“何时”，但审计本身并不适合调查种族的“如何”和“为什么”。种族歧视。在本文中，我回顾了为什么必须进行审计研究来研究种族歧视，审计研究的证据及其局限性。然后，我认为，学者们应该采用一种多方法的方法来进行审计研究，从记录种族民族歧视的存在转向研究如何以及为什么发生种族民族歧视。