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Diversity and Discrimination in the Classroom

Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024

What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...

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The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

Boonmanunt, Suparee; Meier, Stephan - 2020

In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing – among low-income rice farmers in rural Thailand, who cultivate and harvest...

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In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges

Mocan, Naci; Osborne-Christenson, Eric - 2022

We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in foul calls made by referees. Similarly, there is no racial bias or in-group bias in Type-I errors...

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It Hurts to Ask

Benabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

Haylock, Michael; Kampkötter, Patrick; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2023

We offer a comprehensive analysis of the organizational and behavioral foundations of employees' helping and antisocial … data of larger German private-sector firms, we document a large variation in helping and antisocial behavior across firms …, and personality traits explain these firm-level differences in helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace. Our …

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Education and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Time Use Survey

Akar, Betul; Akyol, Pelin; Okten, Cagla - 2019

behavior of men as time spent in volunteering and helping others decreased. We also investigate the causal channels through …

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