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Title: Online Appendix: Voter Response to Hispanic Sounding Names: Evidence from Down Ballot Statewide Elections

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Voter discrimination may also have indirect implications to the extent that in equilibrium candidates endogenously respond to voter bias. In studies of labor market discrimination, a prevailing theme is that minorities should sort away from prejudiced firms in order to minimize the negative effects of bias on wages (Becker (1971), Charles and Guryan (2008)). In politics, it is plausible that minority candidates respond to voter bias in similar fashion by seeking office where bias is less likely to operate. In this case, Hispanic candidates should disproportionately seek office in districts with relatively large shares of Hispanic voters where prejudice against Hispanics is arguably less prevalent. We will assess this possibility using data on local election . . .

Url: http://home.cerge-ei.cz/mittag/papers/state_elections_appendix.pdf

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Authors: Barth, Suzanne K; Mittag, Nikolas; Park, Kyung H

Publisher: Wellesley College

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