Group status, minorities, and trust

Kei Tsutsui and Daniel Zizzo

No 10-10, Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) from School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Abstract: We present the results of an experiment that attempts to measure the impact of majority and minority groups, and high status and low status groups, on well-being, cooperation and social capital. In the experiment, group membership is induced artificially, subjects interact with insiders and outsiders in trust games and periodically enter markets where they can trade group membership. We find that trust falls with groups because of discrimination against outsiders. Against this, however, there is evidence that low group status and minority subjects are less satisfied, and that low status subjects trust less other low status subjects.

Keywords: groups; trust games; social capital; status effects; relative size effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-09-01
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