Article Dans Une Revue (Article De Synthèse) American Economic Review Année : 2024

The Immigrant Next Door

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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.
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hal-04900080 , version 1 (20-01-2025)

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Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Chaney, Tarek A Hassan, Aakaash Rao. The Immigrant Next Door. American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (2), pp.348-384. ⟨hal-04900080⟩
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