Research

Working Paper:

Can Acceptance Reduce Anticipated Discrimination? Evidence from Second-Generation Immigrants (Job Market Paper)

Abstract: I study how the perception of native-born attitudes shapes the anticipated discrimination among the Hispanic second-generation immigrants in the United States. First, I document that the native-born population widely accepted second-generation immigrants as Americans, but the vast majority of the second-generation immigrants underestimated this acceptance. Using an information provision experiment, I causally identify that perceiving increased acceptance lowered the level of anticipated discrimination. When playing a dictator game as recipients, individuals in the treatment group predicted a significant reduction in the payoff gap between signaling their ethnicity as Hispanics compared to Whites. Moreover, perceiving more favorable attitudes also increased the likelihood of individuals signaling as Hispanic. These results suggest that existing anticipated discrimination in society may be reduced by making information on intergroup attitudes more widely known.

Work in Progress:

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations of Consumer Boycott

An Eye for an Eye: Experiments on Mechanisms of Political Discrimination (with George Beknazar-Yuzbashev, Sota Ichiba, Mateusz Stalinski)

Motivated Beliefs on the Returns to College Education (with Sydney Callaway)

Pre-Doctoral Research:

Free Lunch at the on Ramp? The Effect of Ramp Metering on Highway Congestion (with Michael R Ransom)

The effect of new light rail service on traffic congestion in Southern California (with Michael R Ransom)