dc.contributor.author | Grosskopf, B | en_GB |
dc.contributor.author | Pearce, G | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-19T07:29:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-21 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present a field experiment designed to examine the discriminatory motives of an
understudied demographic: the poorest people in England. Subjects are first asked
to divide £10 between two strangers, and then play a £10 dictator game with another
stranger. We subtly vary the ethnicity of the receivers by providing subjects
with surnames randomly drawn from the electoral register, including treatments that
allow us to parse behaviour into either in–group favouritism or out–group negativity,
an important behavioural distinction that is typically overlooked in the discrimination
literature. Our results suggest that the observed discriminatory attitudes are
the result of out-group negativity rather than in-group favouritism. We advance the
literature on discrimination through the estimation of a structural model of group–
contingent social preferences, which we exploit to perform counterfactual simulations.
Our results provide insights into the behaviour of this unique demographic and provide
a rationale for why they may support discriminatory policies in their voting
behaviour. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 141, pp. 29–42 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.05.016 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28074 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | |
dc.subject | Artefactual field experiment | |
dc.subject | Discrimination | |
dc.subject | Dictator games | |
dc.subject | Social preferences | |
dc.title | Discrimination in a deprived neighbourhood: an artefactual field experiment | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-19T07:29:15Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0167-2681 | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | en_GB |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-12-21T00:00:00Z | |