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Is there ethnic discrimination in Roma children’s access to sports clubs in Hungary? : Evidence from field experiments in basketball, volleyball, and soccer
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General Business,Management and Accounting
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
General Psychology
General Economics,Econometrics and Finance
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
General Psychology
General Economics,Econometrics and Finance
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27234
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In this paper, we examine children’s ethnic discrimination in access to sport. We conducted two field experiments to test whether Roma applicants get greater rejection rates when applying to sport clubs and whether this rate is higher in case Roma applicants have a lower-class background. Basketball, volleyball, and soccer coaches were contacted by e-mail using Roma and non-Roma sounding names, requesting to participate in a trial practice. Previous findings show persistent discrimination of Roma people in Central and Eastern Europe in the labor and housing market and in access to various public services. Our findings in the field of sport in Hungary show that there is significant ethnic discrimination only when a stereotype about Roma people being lower class is activated. Further, gender was found to have a significant effect, with higher positive response rates for mothers applying for a trial session for a daughter, than for a son, regardless of their ethnicity. Our findings suggest a prevailing intersection of class and ethnicity, though our data does not allow for the separation of these two effects. These differences are discussed to better understand the role of intersectionality in discrimination within sport.
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2024-10-16
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10.1057/s41599-024-03744-5