Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart (), Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter
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Heike Harmgart: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

No 13337, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee status can generate solidarity with new refugees. We also find that parents' narratives about the refugee crisis are correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental attitudes.

Keywords: discrimination; refugees; children; experiment; integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C93 D90 J13 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2020-06
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Published - revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (4), 1008–1016.

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Working Paper: Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children (2020)
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