Moderator Placement in Survey Experiments: Racial Resentment and the “Welfare” versus “Assistance to the Poor” Question Wording Experiment

Abstract Researchers face difficult decisions about whether to ask potential moderators before or after a survey experiment. Competing concerns exist priming respondents the experiment and introducing post-treatment bias. We replicate classic “welfare” versus “assistance poor” experiment, randomly assigning be asked battery of racial resentment questions either question wording find little evidence that effect is different between those who are Furthermore, we measured affected by this ordering treatment itself.