Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez and Petr Parshakov presented the study "Together but not scrambled? Ethnic discrimination and a low-cost intervention". Co-authors: Cornel M. Nesseler, Helmut M. Dietl.
The authors of the study presented at the IDLab workshop conduct a large-scale field experiment in which we test the efficiency of an intervention: a regional sports research center sends an email to a random selection of around 600 amateur soccer coaches. In this email the coaches find a link with a two-minute video in which two famous Swiss soccer player point towards the important role that soccer can play in promoting inclusivity and reducing racism in society. Two weeks later, research authors send fictitious applications asking to join an amateur club. The researchers use either typical Swiss- or foreign-sounding names. Authors compare the response rate for Swiss- and foreign-sounding names as well for coaches who received the video and those that did not. The results are ambiguous. In general the intervention had no positive effect. However, looking at the open rate, i.e., specifically at clubs that actually watched the videos, we find that the video had a positive effect.
