Professor Nanyun Qian’s Paper is Accepted and Published in International A+ Journal, Review of Economic Studies, Focusing on Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract | Academics

Release time：2025-03-10    

FISF MARCOM  March 10^th 2025 18:19  Shanghai

The paper entitled “Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment during WWII” coauthored by Nanyun Qian, Distinguished Professor in Economics at FISF, and Marco Tabellini was published in the international A+ academic journal, Review of Economic Studies, and will soon be printed.

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Nanyun Qian

复旦大学国际金融学院经济学特聘教授

Distinguished Professor in Economics at FISF

Major contents of the paper:

This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for white men and the racial gap was larger in counties with higher levels of racial discrimination. The results suggest that political exclusion and discrimination can undermine support for the government during critical times such as in times of war.

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