Zussman, Asaf  <br/><br/>
Discrimination in times of crises and the role of the media 

 - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics   
 - 15(4), Oct, 2023: p.422-451 
<br/><br/> Can the extent of ethnic discrimination change quickly, and what circumstances and mechanisms make such changes possible? I address these questions by using scraped data to study the daily evolution of customer discrimination against Arab doctors in Israel from January 2020 to June 2021. Results show that: (1) the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020 led to a dramatic decline in discrimination; (2) the eruption of a wave of ethnic riots in May 2021 had the opposite effect; (3) media coverage of the contribution of Arab doctors to the fight against the pandemic helped bring about the first change.- Reproduced<br/><br/>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210732<br/>