TY - JOUR
T1 - Discrimination in a segmented society
T2 - An experimental approach
AU - Fershtman, Chaim
AU - Gneezy, Uri
N1 - Funding Information:
Ernan Harovy, Rachel Croson, Moshe Semyonov, seminar participants at the University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, Technion, Humboldt University of Berlin, Bonn University, and Stockholm University as well as the Editor and two referees for their helpful comments and suggestions. We also wish to thank The Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, the Sapir Center for Development, and the Israeli Ministry of Science for their financial support.
PY - 2001/2
Y1 - 2001/2
N2 - This paper proposes an experimental approach to studying different aspects of discrimination. We let participants play various games with opponents of distinct ethnic affiliation. Strategies based upon such ethnic affiliation provide direct evidence of ethnic discrimination. This approach was utilized to study ethnic discrimination in Israeli Jewish society. Using the "trust game," we detected a systematic mistrust toward men of Eastern origin. A "dictator game" experiment indicated that this discrimination was due to (mistaken) ethnic stereotypes and not to a "taste for discrimination." The "ultimatum game" enabled us to trace another ethnic stereotype that reversed the discrimination's direction. One of the surprising results is that this ethnic discrimination is an entirely male phenomenon.
AB - This paper proposes an experimental approach to studying different aspects of discrimination. We let participants play various games with opponents of distinct ethnic affiliation. Strategies based upon such ethnic affiliation provide direct evidence of ethnic discrimination. This approach was utilized to study ethnic discrimination in Israeli Jewish society. Using the "trust game," we detected a systematic mistrust toward men of Eastern origin. A "dictator game" experiment indicated that this discrimination was due to (mistaken) ethnic stereotypes and not to a "taste for discrimination." The "ultimatum game" enabled us to trace another ethnic stereotype that reversed the discrimination's direction. One of the surprising results is that this ethnic discrimination is an entirely male phenomenon.
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U2 - 10.1162/003355301556338
DO - 10.1162/003355301556338
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AN - SCOPUS:0013242290
SN - 0033-5533
VL - 116
SP - 351
EP - 377
JO - Quarterly Journal of Economics
JF - Quarterly Journal of Economics
IS - 1
ER -