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EEODataNet
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Lee Badget, Fidan
Kurtulus, University of Massachusetts
NSF- Building Community Capacity funding
First movers
Early Years
•Ron Edwards and Bliss Cartwright, EEOC
•Sheryl Skaggs, NCStateUTexas, Dallas
•Alexandra Kalev, PrincetonTel Aviv U
Later – Phil Cohen, Frank Dobbin, Elizabeth
Hirsch, Matissa Hollister, Matt Huffman, Julie
Kmec, Tricia McTague, Kevin Stainback, Don
Tomaskovic-Devey…………………..
But, there were more
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Economists
Psychologists
Political Scientists
Statisticians
Management Scholars
Research on
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Sex, Race and Class (well occupation) Inequalities
Age discrimination
Disability discrimination
Impact of law on firm behavior
Impact of firm policy on EEO outcomes
Long term historical studies of change in EEO
outcomes
• Qualitative studies of discrimination cases
Triple Silo Problem
• Disciplines largely unaware of each other
• Data confidentiality restrictions meant little
learning across projects, no replication, no
data sharing
• Academic goals not strongly tied to EEOC
needs
Two solutions under construction
• EEODataNet
• EEODataCenter
EEODataNet
• Historical record of all EEO data publications
(197 that we can find)
• Contemporary directory of all EEO data users
(87 that we can find)
• Two EEODataNet conferences at EEOC
• EEODataNet newsletter
• Web site under construction
– to share news
– archive meta-data
EEODataCenter
• Archive EEOC source data
• Archive value added data from social science
community
• Broker relationships between academic
communities and EEOC
– Help navigate IPA process
– Encourage researchers to understand the need to
support EEOC’s regulatory agenda
– Create access point to source and value added data,
as well as metadata
– Encourage EEOC to ask academics for support
Tremendous Research Possibilities
• Influence of enforcement on firm behavior
• Combining EEO data with surveys,
administrative data, Compustat
• Equal opportunity frontiers – LGBT, credit
ratings, criminal background checks, what is a
firm?
• Text Mining of EEOC complaint data
• Geography of EEO
Tremendous Potential to be Relevant
• Kalev, Dobbin and Kelly, 2006
• Identify good and bad firms for EEOC
• Help EEOC understand impact of its regulatory
strategies
• Help EEOC with emerging equal opportunity
frontiers
• Methodology for of EEOC data collection and
analyses
Join us, by sending an email to:
eeeodatanet <[email protected]>