DO PEOPLE AVOID MORALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION? EVIDENCE FROM THE REFUGEE CRISIS
Review of Economics and Statistics, ISSN: 1530-9142, Vol: 103, Issue: 4, Page: 605-620
2021
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Article Description
Combining click data from a Swedish newspaper and administrative data on asylum seekers in Sweden, I examine whether a larger presence of refugees in a municipality induces people to avoid news that may encourage welcoming the newcomers. Exploiting the unexpected inflow of refugees to Sweden during 2015 and their exogenous allocation across Swedish municipalities, I find that people living in municipalities where the relative number of refugees is larger read fewer articles about asylum seekers. The decrease in clicks is 36% larger for more empathic articles and is correlated with less engagement in activities aimed at welcoming refugees.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85118854242&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00934; https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/doi/10.1162/rest_a_00934/97659/Do-People-Avoid-Morally-Relevant-Information; http://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/rest_a_00934/1959168/rest_a_00934.pdf
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