Fortune and identity

Gary Charness and Xin Jiang

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 222, issue C

Abstract: While group identity can generate in-group bias, the topic of how activities generate group affiliation is largely unexplored. We experimentally study the effect of shared experience on group affiliation, varying shared experiences by paying subjects differently for the same task. The results show that shared fortune leads to in-group bias, while shared misfortune does not.

Keywords: Experiment; Distributive preference; Identity; In-group bias; Shared experience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D01 D91 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110954

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