TY  - JOUR
ID  - publications43179
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/125442
A1  - Mantilla, Cesar
A1  - Zhou, Ling
A1  - Wang, Charlotte
A1  - Yang, Donghui
A1  - Shen, Suping
A1  - Seabright, Paul
Y1  - 2021/05//
N2  - Do people discriminate between co-ethnics and others in cooperative interactions? In an experiment in China, we find that participants in trust games send around 15% more to partners they know to be co-ethnics than to those whose ethnicity they do not know. Re- ceivers’ behavior is determined by amounts received and not by perceived ethnicity. In line with previous literature we find that subjects contribute more to public goods in ethnically homogeneous groups than in mixed groups. We find evidence for a new explanation that is not due to different intrinsic preferences for cooperation with ingroup and outgroup members. Instead, subjects’ willingness to punish in-group members for free-riding is re- duced when out-group members are present. This leads to lower contributions and net earnings in mixed groups. Thus favoritism towards co-ethnics can hurt both those engag- ing in favoritism and those being favored.
PB  - Elsevier
JF  - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
VL  - vol. 185
SN  - 0167-2681
TI  - Favoring your in-group can harm both them and you: Ethnicity and public goods provision in China
SP  - 211
AV  - none
EP  - 233
ER  -