Transcript of Interview of Devah Pager by Daniel Sabbagh
Interview Transcript / April 2010 / Available in French and in English
This is the transcript of an interview between Devah Pager, Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, and Daniel Sabbagh, Senior Research Fellow at CERI – Sciences Po and scientific advisor to the Equality of Opportunity Program. This conversation was part of a series of interviews produced by the French-American Foundation between Daniel Sabbagh and five American experts on the theme of equal opportunity.
The following themes were discussed:
- Audit Studies of Discrimination: Purpose, Methodology, and Main Findings
- Objections to the Audit Studies Methodology
- New Research Questions for Audit Studies
- Discrimination in the French Criminal Justice System
- Discrimination in Hiring in the United States and France
- Field Experiments and Statistics on Race and Ethnicity
- Proposals
Video excerpts from the interview are on view here in the Video Library.
EmploymentEthno-racial StatisticsPolicySocial Stereotypes
