Racial bias and the validity of the Implicit Association Test

Daniel Lee

No wp-2016-53, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness of conscious direction. In this paper, I develop a model to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory experiment—a Dictator Game with sorting to study both these giving behaviours, as well as a subject's willingness to be exposed to a giving environment. In doing so, I adapt the Implicit Association Test (IAT), commonplace in other social sciences, for use in economics experiments.

Keywords: Economic conditions; Field experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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