美国的种族与再分配：一项实验分析
Race and redistribution in the United States: An experimental analysis
Journal of Public Economics · 2026 · [{"name": "Jesper Akesson", "affiliation": ["King's College London", "King's College School", "The Behaviouralist (United Kingdom)"]}, {"name": "Robert W. Hahn", "affiliation": ["Carnegie Mellon University"]}, {"name": "Robert D. Metcalfe", "affiliation": ["City University of New York", "Columbia University"]}, {"name": "Itzhak Rasooly", "affiliation": ["St George's, University of London", "City St George's, University of London"]}]
中文摘要
学者们提出，美国白人对福利的支持受其关于福利领取者种族构成信念的影响。本文利用两项实验（n = 9,775）检验这一假说，这两项实验在参与者关于福利领取者种族分布的信念中引入了随机变异。在两个实验中，我们均获得证据表明，外生地提高关于福利领取者中黑人所占份额的信念会降低对福利的支持。我们还利用这些实验研究了“启动”参与者思考种族的效应、关于福利领取者种族分布信念的准确性，以及支撑我们结果的机制。
Abstract
Scholars have suggested that White American support for welfare is influenced by their beliefs about the racial composition of welfare recipients. In this paper, we test this hypothesis using two experiments ( n = 9 , 775 ) that induce random variation in participants’ beliefs about the racial distribution of welfare recipients. In both experiments, we obtain evidence that exogenously increasing beliefs about the share of welfare recipients who are Black reduces support for welfare. We also use our experiments to study the effect of ‘priming’ participants to think about race, the accuracy of beliefs about the racial distribution of welfare recipients, and the mechanisms that underpin our results.