How Does It Feel to Be Part of the Minority? Impacts of Perspective-Taking on Prosocial Behaviors

Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc and Sandra Rozo

No 14303, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Can online experiences that illustrate the perspective of the everyday life of a minority group improve behaviors of the dominant towards the minority group? We explore the case of natives and refugees by randomly assigning 850 natives to: i) an online game that immerses natives in the life decisions of refugees and ii) a real-life documentary about the migration process of refugees. Both treatments effectively improve altruism and reduce prejudice from natives towards migrants. The impacts of both treatments are not statistically different in any of the other outcomes that we examine.

Keywords: migration; redistribution; trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 F2 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63 pages
Date: 2021-04
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