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Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia / Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bursztyn, Leonardo.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26567.
- NBER working paper series no. w26567
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Social Media and Xenophobia
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We study the causal effect of social media on ethnic hate crimes and xenophobic attitudes in Russia using quasi-exogenous variation in social media penetration across cities. Higher penetration of social media led to more ethnic hate crimes, but only in cities with a high pre-existing level of nationalist sentiment. Consistent with a mechanism of coordination of crimes, the effects are stronger for crimes with multiple perpetrators. We implement a national survey experiment and show that social media persuaded young and low-educated individuals to hold more xenophobic attitudes, but did not increase respondents' openness to expressing these views. Our results are consistent with a simple model of social learning where penetration of social networks increases individuals' propensity to meet like-minded people.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2019.
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