Abstract：
Despite a large literature consistently showing a relationship between higher levels of education and lower levels of ethnic prejudice, some points of contention remain. First, it remains unclear whether education has a causal effect on attitudes, mainly due to a lack of longitudinal studies. Second, due to the majority of studies on prejudice being conducted in Europe and North America, we do not know to what extent the inverse relationship between education and prejudice is generalizable beyond the \"global North.\" To answer these questions, I study attitudes toward immigrants in Chile in the years 2016-2022, using six waves of the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey. Chile provides new variations in economic and cultural factors, with its stable albeit highly unequal economy, and increased immigration from culturally similar countries which shed light on possible scope conditions of the so-called liberalizing effect of education. I analyze whether attaining more education has an effect on reducing levels of perceived economic and cultural threat. The findings show that increases in education are associated with both lower levels of perceived economic and cultural threat, with education having a stronger effect on the latter.
摘要：
尽管大量文献一直显示出教育水平较高和种族偏见水平较低之间的关系，一些争论点仍然存在。首先,目前尚不清楚教育是否对态度有因果关系，主要是由于缺乏纵向研究。第二,由于大多数关于偏见的研究是在欧洲和北美进行的，我们不知道教育和偏见之间的反向关系在多大程度上可以超越“全球北方”。“要回答这些问题，我使用智利纵向社会调查的六波研究了2016-2022年智利对移民的态度。智利提供了经济和文化因素的新变化，尽管经济高度不平等，但经济稳定，以及来自文化相似国家的移民增加，这揭示了所谓教育自由化效应的可能范围条件。我分析了获得更多教育是否对降低感知的经济和文化威胁水平有影响。研究结果表明，教育的增加与较低的经济和文化威胁水平有关，教育对后者有更强的影响。
