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This paper studies how discriminatory fake news arises and spatially diffuses. We focus on India at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: on March 30, a Muslim convention (the Tablighi Jamaat) in New Delhi became publicly recognized as a COVID hotspot, and the next day, fake news on Muslims...
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Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed …
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A large body of research documents the existence of discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities in the labour … market. This study investigates for Austria, to what degree employment discrimination against ethnic minorities is mitigated … ethnicity salient or when they hold a local sounding name. In our correspondence test, we found that with matching ethnic names …
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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a … framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and group affiliation). Discrimination is prevalent in our subjects …
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with the observability of ethnicity, and the exposure to situations where there is a risk of discrimination, to produce a … discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or … intensifies the emotional response to the object of discrimination. This paper builds on this insight based on the understanding …
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Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the...
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We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...
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sample of 100 students from the majority population. We also estimate the role of statistical discrimination, taste …-based discrimination, and the contact hypothesis. Our results show small but significant mistreatment of the Roma. The choice to (not) have … a Roma in a team seems to be driven by tastes, while the role of statistical discrimination and the contact hypothesis …
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This paper studies how discriminatory fake news arises and spatially diffuses. We focus on India at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: on March 30, a Muslim convention (the Tablighi Jamaat) in New Delhi became publicly recognized as a COVID hotspot, and the next day, fake news on Muslims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468642