We investigate the effects of group identity and income inequality on social preferences and polarization by means of a laboratory experiment. We split our subjects into two populations: in-group (representing "natives") and out-group ("migrants"). In-group subjects repeatedly vote whether an...

Dishonest activities with negative consequences for others and society are often undertaken by individuals as well as groups of people. In this paper, we use a field experiment among students aged 11-16 years to study whether there is a difference between individual and group cheating behavior....

We investigate the role of endowment heterogeneity in a local and global public goods setting with multiple group membership and examine the effect of temporal role reversal on cooperation decisions. Subjects can contribute to a global public good which benefits all subjects and two local public...

This paper develops a set of arguments for envy reduction within economics and tries to show that, if humans possess a psychological bias towards accepting the group social norms, such - for example - imitating the common behavior, which may also happen to be the most successful in solving the...