| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13749 |
| DP13749 Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change | |
| Raquel Fernández; Sahar Parsa; Martina Viarengo | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-05-22 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of mobilization and endogenous political process led to cultural transformation. We show that the process of change was discontinuous over time and present suggestive evidence that the 1992 presidential election followed by the "don't ask, don't tell" debate led to a change in attitudes. Using a difference-in-difference empirical strategy, we find that, in accordance with our hypothesis, the change in opinion was greater in states with higher AIDS rates. Our analysis suggests that if individuals in low-AIDS states had experienced the same average AIDS rate as a high-AIDS state, the change in their approval rate from the '70s to the '90s would have been 50 percent greater. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Cultural change Aids epidemic Lgbt attitudes Public opinion Party politics Presidential elections |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13749 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542614 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Raquel Fernández,Sahar Parsa,Martina Viarengo. DP13749 Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change. 2019. |
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