Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279224 
Title: 

Virtue Signals

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Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10475
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study whether tweets about racial justice predict the offline behaviors of nearly 20,000 US academics. In an audit study, academics that tweet about racial justice discriminate more in favor of minority students than academics that do not tweet about racial justice. Racial justice tweets are more predictive of race-related political tweets than political contributions, suggesting that visibility increases informativeness. In contrast, the informativeness of tweets is lower during periods of high social pressure to tweet about racial justice. Finally, most graduate students mispredict informativeness, more often underestimating than overestimating, reducing the welfare benefits of social media.
Subjects: 
virtue signals
social signalling
discrimination
audit experiment
political behavior
JEL: 
C93
D91
I23
J15
J71
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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