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Scapegoating during Crises

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  • Leonardo Bursztyn
  • Georgy Egorov
  • Ingar Haaland
  • Aakaash Rao
  • Christopher Roth

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Economic crises are often accompanied by waves of antiminority behavior. We build on the framework developed in Bursztyn et al. (2022) to propose that crises, in addition to shifting people's attitudes toward minorities, can provide intolerant people with a plausible rationale for expressing their preexisting prejudice. The availability of such a rationale thus increases antiminority behavior by reducing the associated social sanctions. In an experiment examining how economic crises affect social inference about the motives underlying xenophobic behavior, we find that crises lead respondents to ascribe antiminority behavior to economic concerns rather than to innate xenophobia.

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  • Leonardo Bursztyn & Georgy Egorov & Ingar Haaland & Aakaash Rao & Christopher Roth, 2022. "Scapegoating during Crises," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 112, pages 151-155, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:112:y:2022:p:151-55
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20221069
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    1. Sulin Sardoschau & Annali Casanueva-Artis, 2025. "The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-wing Protest and Hate Crimes," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series 2508, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin).
    2. Sulin Sardoschau & Annalí Casanueva Artís, 2025. "The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-Wing Protest and Hate Crimes," CESifo Working Paper Series 11745, CESifo.
    3. Sardoschau, Sulin & Casanueva-Artís, Annalí, 2025. "The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-Wing Protest and Hate Crimes," IZA Discussion Papers 17763, IZA Network @ LISER.

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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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