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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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2021-07
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Sakong, Jung
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Chicago, IL
- (when)
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.21033/wp-2021-07
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Associated
- Sakong, Jung
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Time of origin
- 2021
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