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Title: The Immigrant Next Door: Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2021

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DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3781335

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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://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3781335

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

Series Title: NBER Working Paper

Publication Number: w28448

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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