Winmail3: An automated email package with an application to correspondence audit tests

Luca Fumarco, S. Michael Gaddis () and Iain Snoddy ()
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S. Michael Gaddis: University of California, Los Angeles
Iain Snoddy: Analysis Group

No 2110, Working Papers from Tulane University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Correspondence audits are a popular method to examine discrimination in a causal framework. However, correspondence audits often require sending hundreds or thousands of emails to subjects. The Winmail3 package allows users to automatically send emails with Stata through PowerShell, which is open-source and cross-platform. Researchers can use this package to perform basic email tasks, such as contacting students or colleagues with standardized messages. Additionally, researchers can perform more complex tasks that entail sending randomized messages with multiple attachments from multiple accounts, tasks that are often necessary to conduct correspondence audit tests. This paper introduces the command and illustrates multiple examples of its application. We believe that researchers can apply this package to correspondence audit tests to save time and money.

Keywords: correspondence audit tests; field experiments; automation; PowerShell; email (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06
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