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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The federation sent an email to a random selection of about 500 amateur soccer coaches, pointing towards the important role that soccer can play in promoting inclusivity and reducing racism in society and calling on the coaches to be open to all interested applicants. Two weeks later, we sent fictitious applications to join an amateur club, using either a native-sounding or a foreign-sounding name, to the same coaches and to a random selection of about 500 coaches who form the control group. In line with earlier research, we find that applications from people with a native-sounding name receive significantly more positive responses than applications from people with a foreign-sounding name. Surprisingly and unintentionally, the email from the federation substantially increased rather than decreased this gap. Our study underlines the importance of running field experiments to check whether well-intended initiatives are effective in reducing discrimination.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15186
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Sports Economics: Other
- Subject
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field experiment
intervention
ethnic discrimination
correspondence test
amateur soccer
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dur, Robert
Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos
Nesseler, Cornel
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2022
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Dur, Robert
- Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos
- Nesseler, Cornel
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2022
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