Corrado Giulietti|Mirco Tonin|Michael Vlassopoulos
Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the United States
University of Southampton|Free University of Bozen-Bolzano|University of Southampton
examine whether racial discrimination exists access public services united states carry email correspondence study pose simple queries 19000 local public service providers find emails putatively black senders almost 4 percentage points less likely receive answer compared emails signed whitesounding name moreover responses queries coming black names less likely cordial tone tests suggest differential likelihood answering due animus toward blacks rather inferring socioeconomic status race finally show attitudes toward government among blacks negative states higher discrimination