Beliefs about Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies

Ingar Haaland and Christopher Roth

No 7828, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We examine whether information about racial discrimination causally affects support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of hiring discrimination against blacks. Relative to Republicans, Democrats think that blacks have to send out 47 percent more resumes than whites to receive a callback. An information treatment substantially narrows Republican–Democrat differences in beliefs, but fails to narrow differences in political behavior. Overall, the results demonstrate that correcting biases in beliefs about the extent of racial discrimination is not sufficient to reduce political polarization in support for pro-black policies.

Keywords: racial discrimination; beliefs; pro-black policies; policy preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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