Abstract
Can the extent of ethnic discrimination change quickly, and what circumstances and mechanisms make such changes possible? I address these questions by using scraped data to study the daily evolution of customer discrimination against Arab doctors in Israel from January 2020 to June 2021. Results show that: (1) the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020 led to a dramatic decline in discrimination; (2) the eruption of a wave of ethnic riots in May 2021 had the opposite effect; (3) media coverage of the contribution of Arab doctors to the fight against the pandemic helped bring about the first change.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 422-451 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
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