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Identity, Communication, and Conflict: An Experiment
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2023
We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self … of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …
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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262244
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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
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Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices
Autiero, Giuseppina; O'Higgins, Niall - 2013
This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends …
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
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Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification
Hunter, Boyd; Howlett, Monica; Biddle, Nicholas - 2014
Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or intensifies the emotional response to the object of...
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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Raschke, Christian - 2014
consistent with the model of Glaeser (2005) on hate, and with that of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005) on identity in the utility …
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Occupation and Gender
Cortes, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2017
's occupational choices and the gender wage gap. Finally, we consider the role of gender identity and social norms in shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653400
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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2017
In many countries, ethnic minorities have a persistent disadvantageous socioeconomic position. We investigate whether aversion to competing against members of the ethnically dominant group could be a contributing factor to this predicament. We conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural...
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Women Legislators and Economic Performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
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