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Econ professor @usc_econ @usc @nberpubs @JPAL; co-founder: @tbehaviouralist & @signol_io; first-gen coll grad, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Sep 5, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
New @nberpubs working paper out today:

"Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis"

nber.org/papers/w30426

with @jesper_akesson, Bob Hahn, & Itzhak Rasooly

#econtwitter Motivation: Many observational studies suggest that people's (incorrect) beliefs about welfare recipients being disproportionately Black limit their support for related spending.

In our paper, we test this hypothesis using the tools of randomized inference.