Discrimination in Times of Crises and the Role of the Media

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zussman, Asaf
• 署名单位: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20210732
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 422-451
• 关键词: customer discrimination; racial-discrimination; employment outcomes; field experiment; PREJUDICE; CONFLICT; MARKET; propaganda; diversity; BEHAVIOR

摘要

Can the extent of ethnic discrimination change quickly, and what circumstances and mechanisms make such changes possible? I address these questions by using scraped data to study the daily evolution of customer discrimination against Arab doctors in Israel from January 2020 to June 2021. Results show that: (1) the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020 led to a dramatic decline in discrimination; (2) the eruption of a wave of ethnic riots in May 2021 had the opposite effect; (3) media coverage of the contribution of Arab doctors to the fight against the pandemic helped bring about the first change.