Trust involves a willingness to be vulnerable to other agents' actions as well as an assessment of these agents' trustworthiness. This paper seeks to unpack the relationship between trust and workplace organization, focusing on signals of (un)trustworthiness guiding employers' trust decisions....

Whereas ethnoregional favoritism by national leaders is widely studied, ethnic favoritism at lower government levels is likely a more salient source of ethnic resentment. Relying on individual-level panel data from Indonesia and a historical instrument we establish that ethnic favoritism is...

Although racial inequalities are much researched, studies differ on the specific measure of individuals’ racial identity that they consider. This can affect the comparability of results across studies and, more importantly, the estimation of racial inequality in society. We estimate the extent...

Whereas region-based ethnic favoritism in public good provision is widely studied, ethnic favoritism by lower governments allocating individual benefits to specific beneficiaries is more easily observable by individuals and therefore a more salient source of ethnic resentment, in addition to...