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Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
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We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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-scale, incentivized lab-in-field-experiment based on the investment game, allowing us to assess the in-group bias of native German … students in their interactions with fellow natives (in-group) versus immigrants (out-group). We find in-group bias peaks in … backgrounds. In contrast, in classrooms characterized by non-cultural polarization, fractionalization, or a native supermajority …
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investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives … and in-group favoritism with survey data on three different affirmative action policies. Our results rely on a population … contrast, in-group favoritism and socio-demographic characteristics play a much smaller role. …
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-run persistence of observed discrimination against certain minorities in the labor market. The experiment provides some evidence … experiment, failing to generate a Self-Confirming Equilibrium driven by wrong beliefs. The strategy method provides additional …
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find that when no harm is done, there is no evidence of discrimination against the ethnic minority. In contrast, when a …
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We use a randomized survey to study how discrimination affects parenting choices. In our survey, parents with young … fictitious names of the testifying parents across respondents. We find bias against ethnic minorities among parents who prefer a … discrimination are likely to come from parents preferring less permissive/more authoritarian methods of parenting. …
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We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we … discrimination against migrants by the general population is both widespread and substantial. Our causal moderation analysis shows …
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Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental …
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into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females … migrants, who have constituted a large demographic group in Germany since the 1970s. In the field experiment presented here … photograph included in the application material. Germany was the ideal location for the experiment as job seekers typically …
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