| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29245 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29245 |
| Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them | |
| Alberto Alesina; Matteo F. Ferroni; Stefanie Stantcheva | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-09-13 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Using new large-scale survey and experimental data, we investigate how respondents perceive racial inequities between Black and white Americans, what they believe causes them, and what interventions, if any, they think should be implemented to reduce them. We intentionally over-sample Black respondents, cover many US cities, and survey both adults and young people of ages 13 through 17. In the experimental parts, we consider the causal impact of information on racial inequities (such as the evolution of the Black-white earnings gap or the differences in mobility for Black and white children) and explanations for these inequities (i.e., the deep-seated roots and long-lasting consequences of systemic racism) on respondents’ views. Although there is heterogeneity in how respondents perceive the magnitude of current racial gaps in economic conditions and opportunities, the biggest discrepancies are in how they explain them. There is a stark partisan gap among white respondents, particularly in the perceived causes of racial inequities and what should be done about them. White Democrats and Black respondents are much more likely to attribute racial inequities to adverse past and present circumstances and want to act on them with race-targeted and general redistribution policies. White Republicans are more likely to attribute racial gaps to individual actions. These views are already deeply entrenched in teenagers, based on their race and their parents’ political affiliation. A policy decomposition shows that the perceived causes of racial inequities correlate most strongly with support for race-targeted or general redistribution policies, a finding confirmed by the experimental results. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Public Goods ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29245 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586919 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alberto Alesina,Matteo F. Ferroni,Stefanie Stantcheva. Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them. 2021. |
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