ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

At this session of the Political, Legal, and Moral Philosophy (POLEMO) Research Group, on Wednesday, 7th November, at 13.30-15.10 in room N15 102, We will discuss the first two further chapters of T.M. Scanlon's

WHY DOES INEQUALITY MATTER?

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ABSTRACT | The conventional wisdom that violence in poor countries is rooted in the lack of prosperity is repeated to the point of monotony. The presentation focuses on the impact of foreign aid as a choice of weapon to combat violence. More precisely, after identifying some mechanisms linking together aid and violence, this research resolves part of the confusion over how foreign aid shocks affects political violence in aid recipient countries. 

At this session of the Political, Legal, and Moral Philosophy (POLEMO) Research Group, on Wednesday, 7th November, at 13.30-15.10 in room N15 102, We will discuss the first two chapters of T.M. Scanlon's

WHY DOES INEQUALITY MATTER?

The chapters to discuss are '1. Introduction' and '2. Equal concern'.

Abstract

We evaluated the effect of an intervention that targeted anti-Roma sentiment on attitudes towards refugees in Hungary using an online role-playing game. The evaluation was a randomized experiment with young adult participants playing a role-playing game facilitating perspective-taking, with the control group playing an unrelated placebo game. This paper evaluates the effect one year after the intervention and finds a substantial effect of 0.3 standard deviation reduction of prejudice against refugees.