This chapter surveys the literature of the past 20 years on group identity and intergroup bias
which serve as important underpinnings for labor market discrimination. Main economic …

The ability to predict when societies will replace one social norm for another can have
significant implications for welfare, especially when norms are detrimental. A popular theory …

We experimentally investigate the relationship between discriminatory behaviour and the
perceived social inappropriateness of discrimination. We conjecture that discrimination will …

We present a controlled laboratory experiment to investigate whether and to what extent
people will cheat on behalf of a member of their own in-group at the expense of a non …

We study the impact of scarcity on cheating and in-group favoritism using a two-period lab-in-
the-field experiment with low-income coffee farmers in a small, isolated village in …

La corrupción es una práctica extendida en las sociedades actuales que, a pesar de su
relevancia social, se ha estudiado desde postulados mayoritariamente economicistas. Se …

Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory
experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of …

Peer-punishment is an important determinant of cooperation in human groups. It has been
suggested that, at the proximate level of analysis, punitive preferences can explain why …

Humans often favour ingroup members over others, a bias that drives discrimination and
intergroup conflicts. Hostile relations between groups and homogeneity within groups may …

We study the role of performance differences in a task requiring cognitive effort on in-group
bias. We show that the in-group bias is strong in groups consisting of high-performing …