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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2021-07

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sakong, Jung
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(wo)
Chicago, IL
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.21033/wp-2021-07
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

Datenpartner

Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sakong, Jung
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Entstanden

  • 2021

Ähnliche Objekte (12)