Arbeitspapier
Identifying taste-based discrimination: Effect of black electoral victories on racial prejudice and economic gaps
I test for the causal impact of Black electoral victories in local elections on White Americans' attitude toward Black Americans. Using Race Implicit Attitude Test scores as a measure of racial prejudice and close-election regression-discontinuity design for causal inference, I find Black electoral victories cause measures of racial bias to rise, by 4% of the average BlackWhite difference in IAT scores. Simultaneously, they widen racial gaps in unemployment and mortgage denials. Interpreting these close electoral victories as instrumental variables, I find a large causal effect of prejudice-based racial discrimination on Black-White economic gaps.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2021-07
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Sakong, Jung
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Chicago, IL
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.21033/wp-2021-07
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Sakong, Jung
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Entstanden
- 2021