Learning about Ethnic Discrimination from Different Information Sources
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چکیده
We experimentally study whether public beliefs about ethnic discrimination, an emotionally loaded issue, are shifted more by information from experts or ordinary people. also examine people inclined to choose the most influential sources. For this purpose, we combine, in a novel design, random provision of different sources with endogenous acquisition same find that individuals update their response experts, namely researchers studying minorities and human resource managers. Exogenous adjustments do not induce changes attitudes minorities. Consistent strength belief updating, over This result suggests that, aggregate, behave rationally as they favor source is perceived be relatively accurate. The findings have implications for dissemination policies.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Science Research Network
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1556-5068']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3829974