CID Speaker Series
Missing Results of Discrimination — S. Michael Gaddis
S. Michael Gaddis
When
Thursday, November 19, 2026
Noon–1:30 p.m.
About the event
Abstract: Intersectionality theory argues that race and gender cannot be fully understood in isolation or through an additive approach. Building on intersectionality, this study introduces a systematically comparative framework to identify missing results in correspondence audits and help scholars conduct more holistic analyses. A meta-analysis of 52 correspondence audits encompassing nearly 330,000 tests for discrimination, paired with a re-examination of each study using seven discrimination ratios, reveals previously overlooked patterns and identifies ways scholars may miss key findings when they do not adopt a systematically comparative intersectional approach.
About the speaker
Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host S. Michael Gaddis, clinical associate professor of management and policy at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, for “Missing Results of Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Discrimination using Correspondence Audits.”
Dr. S. Michael Gaddis is a clinical associate professor of management and policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. A methodologist with expertise in survey and experimental design, he studies inequality and discrimination across multiple dimensions. His evidence-based work has prompted changes on the Airbnb platform and supported the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in strengthening enforcement of anti-discrimination housing laws. In 2025, he received the Public Sociology Award from the Eastern Sociological Society.
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