07/02/2022
Did the Covid-19 affect the hostility against foreigners? Vojtech Bartos from the Seminar for Behavioral and Experimental Economics investigated whether the Covid-19 crisis fueled hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities jointly with Michal Bauer (CERGE-EI), Jana Cahlíková (MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance), and Julie Chytilová (CERGE-EI). The team elicited hostile behavior among a nationally representative sample in the Czech Republic in an incentive compatible economic experiment at a time when the entire population was under lockdown. The findings indicate that the Covid-19 crisis magnified hostility against foreigners and underscore the importance of not inflaming anti-foreigner sentiments. The paper has been recently published in the European Economic Review and highlights that monitoring the impacts of the Covid crisis on behavior in social domains is important.
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