Do Reported Attitudes towards Immigrants Predict Ethnic Discrimination?

Magnus Carlsson and Stefan Eriksson

No 2012:6, Working Paper Series from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people’s attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic discrimination from a field experiment in the Swedish housing market to re-examine this issue. We find clear evidence of a link between reported attitudes towards immigrants and the extent of ethnic discrimination at the municipality level. Thus, in contrast to most prior studies, our results suggest that reported attitudes may be a useful proxy for ethnic discrimination.

Keywords: Attitudes; Ethnic discrimination; Field experiments; Housing market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J15 R39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2012-02-21
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-exp, nep-mig, nep-pol, nep-soc and nep-ure
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