Conflict and the Persistence of Ethnic Bias
研究2000-2004年冲突期间及之后以色列阿拉伯和犹太法官的民族偏见,发现暴力下降后偏见并未普遍减弱,且与地区过去暴力强度正相关。
How persistent are the effects of conflict on bias toward co-ethnics? What are the channels of persistence? We employ a measure of ethnic bias derived from decisions made by Israeli Arab and Jewish judges to study the levels and determinants of bias during the 2000–2004 conflict and its aftermath (2007–2010). Despite the fall in violence, we find no evidence of a general attenuation in bias. Furthermore, bias remains positively associated with past intensity of violence in different localities. This persistence does not appear to be due to judges' personal exposure to violence but rather to different dynamics in afflicted areas.