Data and Code for: From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore, NUS Business School; Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University

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Citation:

Müller, Karsten, and Schwarz, Carlo. Data and Code for: From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment: Reproduction Raw Data. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-06-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E158541V1-141791

To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E158541V1.

Project Description

Summary:

We study whether social media can amplify anti-minority sentiments with a focus on Donald Trump's political rise. Using an instrumental variable strategy based on Twitter's early adopters at the South by Southwest festival in 2007, we find that higher Twitter use in a county is associated with a sizeable increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes after the 2016 presidential primaries. Trump's tweets about Muslims predict increases in xenophobic tweets by his followers, cable news mentions of Muslims, and hate crimes on the following days. These results suggest that social media content can affect real-life outcomes.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Social Media; Twitter; Hate Crime; Minorities

JEL Classification:
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      O35 Social Innovation
      Z10 Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General

Geographic Coverage: United States

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