eprintid: 43179 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/04/31/79 datestamp: 2021-03-26 12:35:30 lastmod: 2023-06-08 11:35:32 status_changed: 2023-06-08 11:35:32 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Mantilla, Cesar creators_name: Zhou, Ling creators_name: Wang, Charlotte creators_name: Yang, Donghui creators_name: Shen, Suping creators_name: Seabright, Paul creators_idrefppn: 034345191 creators_affiliation: Universidad del Rosario; Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics; Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; University of Toulouse creators_halaffid: 1002422 ; 506116 creators_halaffid: 1002422 title: Favoring your in-group can harm both them and you: Ethnicity and public goods provision in China ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: 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. date: 2021-05 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier id_number: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.016 official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/125442 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: FALSE doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.016 subjectsJEL: JEL_C93 subjectsJEL: JEL_D9 subjectsJEL: JEL_H41 view_date_year: 2021 full_text_status: none publication: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization volume: vol. 185 pagerange: 211-233 refereed: TRUE issn: 0167-2681 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:125442 harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: issn harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd oai_lastmod: 2023-05-26T12:10:24Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 hal_id: hal-03182510 hal_passwd: 1iyu27 hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03182510 citation: Mantilla, Cesar, Zhou, Ling, Wang, Charlotte, Yang, Donghui, Shen, Suping and Seabright, Paul (2021) Favoring your in-group can harm both them and you: Ethnicity and public goods provision in China. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 185. pp. 211-233.