Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments

• Published in: IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc
• Main Authors: Cevat Giray Aksoy, Carpenter, Christopher S, de Haas, Ralph, Dolls, Mathias, Windsteiger, Lisa
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 01.01.2022
• Subjects: Sexual orientation discrimination

We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discriminatio...