Journal ArticleDOI
Group Identity and Social Preferences
Yan Chen,Sherry Xin Li +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This paper found that participants are significantly more likely to choose social welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member when compared to when they are matched with a non-group identity.Abstract:
We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member, they show a 47 percent increase in charity concerns and a 93 percent decrease in envy. Likewise, participants are 19 percent more likely to reward an ingroup match for good behavior, but 13 percent less likely to punish an ingroup match for misbehavior. Furthermore, participants are significantly more likely to choose social-welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member. All results are consistent with the hypothesis that participants are more altruistic toward an ingroup match. (read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Giving to versus Taking from In- and Out-Group Members
TL;DR: It is found that participants are slightly more generous when they have an opportunity to give to rather than to take from the recipient, and when participants are matched with in-group members, this result is reversed and highly significant.
Journal ArticleDOI
Religious fragmentation, social identity and other-regarding preferences: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on other-regarding preferences in a series of two-player binary Dictator experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and Muslim participants in rural West Bengal, India.
Posted Content
A Theory of Social Finance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make sense of the diverse ways of operationalizing the delivery of funds by social financial institutions (SFIs) and explore the continuum of feasible SFIs, which range from foundations offering pure grants to social banks supplying soft loans.
Journal ArticleDOI
Measuring Ethnic Bias: Can Misattribution-Based Tools from Social Psychology Reveal Group Biases that Economics Games Cannot?
TL;DR: This paper examined a set of misattribution-based approaches, adapted from social psychology, that may sidestep these concerns, and concluded that researchers of ethnic and other biases may benefit from including misattribute-based procedures in their tool kits to widen the set of biases to which their investigations are sensitive.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing
Yoav Benjamini,Yosef Hochberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a different approach to problems of multiple significance testing is presented, which calls for controlling the expected proportion of falsely rejected hypotheses -the false discovery rate, which is equivalent to the FWER when all hypotheses are true but is smaller otherwise.
Book ChapterDOI
The social identity theory of intergroup behavior
Henri Tajfel,John C. Turner +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of intergroup conflict and some preliminary data relating to the theory is presented in this article. But the analysis is limited to the case where the salient dimensions of the intergroup differentiation are those involving scarce resources.
Journal ArticleDOI
z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments
TL;DR: Z-Tree as mentioned in this paper is a toolbox for ready-made economic experiments, which allows programming almost any kind of experiments in a short time and is stable and easy to use.
Journal ArticleDOI
A theory of fairness, competition and cooperation
Ernst Fehr,Klaus M. Schmidt +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that if some people care about equity, the puzzles can be resolved and that the economic environment determines whether the fair types or the selesh types dominate equilibrium behavior in cooperative games.