Discrimination in Times of Crises and the Role of the Media

Asaf Zussman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 422-51

Abstract: Can the extent of ethnic discrimination change quickly, and what circumstances and mechanisms make such changes possible? I address these questions by using scraped data to study the daily evolution of customer discrimination against Arab doctors in Israel from January 2020 to June 2021. Results show that: (1) the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020 led to a dramatic decline in discrimination; (2) the eruption of a wave of ethnic riots in May 2021 had the opposite effect; (3) media coverage of the contribution of Arab doctors to the fight against the pandemic helped bring about the first change.

JEL-codes: D91 I12 J15 J44 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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