Back to History

Fields Changed

Registration

Field Before After
Last Published January 04, 2022 08:45 AM January 11, 2022 02:04 PM
Back to top

Papers

Field Before After
Paper Abstract This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic. Our focus is on public servants at local job centers whose job is to advise unemployed individuals and process applications for unemployment benefit. Our experimental design facilitates testing for the presence of each of two key (but intertwined) drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them. This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them.
Paper Citation PapersMikula, Štˇepán, and Josef Montag. 2021. Roma and Bureaucrats: A Field Experiment in the CzechRepublic. Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Charles University. Online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3805631. Mikula, Štěpán, and Josef Montag. 2022. Roma and Bureaucrats: A Field Experiment in the Czech Republic. MUNI ECON Working Paper No. 2022-01.
Paper URL https://ssrn.com/abstract=3805631 https://ideas.repec.org/p/mub/wpaper/2022-01.html
Back to top