Media visibility and social tolerance: Evidence from USA

dc.contributor.author	Ralsmark, Hilda
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-06T09:59:05Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-06T09:59:05Z
dc.date.issued	2017-07
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/53014
dc.description	JEL: L82; D83; J15; K42	sv
dc.description.abstract	I study the impact of media visibility of people of colour on the rate of hate crimes motivated by race or ethnicity in the United States. To do so, I construct a novel measure of state-level media visibility of people of colour between 2007 and 2013. Comparing state-level variation in the hate crime rate with a measure of the one-year lagged state-level variation in media visibility, I find that an increase in media visibility reduces the number of hate crimes. The effect is not larger in states that used to be pro-slavery, but larger in states that are more prone to spontaneous emotional outbursts of hate. The result, which is robust to several checks, is in the line with the argument that "visibility matters."	sv
dc.format.extent	39	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	703	sv
dc.subject	Media	sv
dc.subject	Information and Knowledge	sv
dc.subject	Economics of minorities	sv
dc.subject	Crime	sv
dc.title	Media visibility and social tolerance: Evidence from USA	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv
dc.contributor.organization	Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv