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Attitudes towards Migrants during Crisis Times

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  • Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol
  • Rozo, Sandra

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How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to 3,400 Colombian citizens and randomly prime half of them to think about the economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan migrants. We find that natives attitudes towards migrants are substantially more negative in the treatment relative to the control group. Individuals ages 18 to 25 years, however, respond to the treatment by showing more altruism.

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  • Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol & Rozo, Sandra, 2021. "Attitudes towards Migrants during Crisis Times," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 11326, Inter-American Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:11326
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003331
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    Keywords

    Migration; COVID-19; Priming; Altruism; COVID-19; COVID-19; COVID-19; COVID-19; attitudes;
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • F20 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - General

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