The Immigrant Next Door

Leonardo Bursztyn (), Thomas Chaney (), Tarek Hassan and Aakaash Rao ()
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Leonardo Bursztyn: University of Chicago, NBER - The National Bureau of Economic Research
Thomas Chaney: USC - University of Southern California, ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research
Tarek Hassan: BU - Boston University [Boston], NBER - The National Bureau of Economic Research, CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research
Aakaash Rao: Harvard University

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Abstract: We study how the presence of 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 the long-term presence of a given foreign ancestry in a US county 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 the presence of a larger Arab-Muslim population: (i) decreases both natives' explicit and implicit prejudice against Arab-Muslims, (ii) reduces natives' support for policies and political candidates hostile toward Arab-Muslims, (iii) leads to more personal contact between natives and Arab-Muslim individuals, and (iv) increases natives' knowledge of Arab-Muslims and Islam.

Keywords: Contact; Attitudes; Immigration; Prejudice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02
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Published in American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (2), pp.348-384

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