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Title: The Immigrant Next Door: Long-Term Contact, Generosity, and Prejudice

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives’ attitudes and behavior toward that group. Using individualized donations data from large charitable organizations, we show that long-term exposure to a given foreign ancestry leads to more generous behavior specifically toward that group’s ancestral country. To shed light on mechanisms, we focus on attitudes and behavior toward Arab-Muslims, combining several existing large-scale surveys, cross-county data on implicit prejudice, and a newly-collected national survey. We show that greater long-term exposure: (i) decreases both explicit and implicit prejudice against Arab-Muslims, (ii) reduces support for policies and political candidates hostile toward Arab-Muslims, (iii) leads to more personal contact with Arab-Muslim individuals, and (iv) increases knowledge of Arab-Muslims and Islam in general.

Url: https://home.uchicago.edu/bursztyn/immigrant-next-door_march2022.pdf

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Authors: Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; A. Hassan, Tarek; Rao, Aakaash

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Pages: 1-84

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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