@misc{10481/109674,
year = {2022},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/109674},
abstract = {Social categories matter to people, but it is not obvious ex ante which ones matter more.
To explore this, we conduct a novel experimental market of anonymous partners based on
social categories. Participants have the option of choosing or discarding a peer according to
their gender, ethnicity, and religion. Our research design allows us to explore whether in-
dividuals prioritize social categories when selecting a peer and whether the order in which
social categories are prioritized is context dependent. Considering both free and costly de-
cisions, two economic contexts are evaluated: donations (dictator game) and investments
(risk game). We find that when selecting a partner, gender appears to be the dominant
social category across different conditions, with subjects exhibiting sharp preferences for
being matched with a female partner. However, the partner’s religion gains prominence
as a requested social category when issues concerning social-group decision-making be-
come relevant to one’s own payoffs. Finally, we find that choosing social categories seems
to have economic consequences both by increasing economic donations and increasing in-
vestments.},
organization = {MCINN (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation): PGC2018-097811-B-I00},
organization = {MCINN-FEDER 2018 (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation): A-SEJ-151-UGR18.},
organization = {Zayed University: R19064},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {Social categories},
keywords = {Gender},
keywords = {Religion},
keywords = {Ethnicity},
keywords = {Discrimination},
title = {Which social categories matter to people: An experiment},
doi = {10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.010},
author = {Adnan, Wifag and Arin, K. Peren and Charness, Gary and Lacomba Arias, Juan Antonio and Lagos García, Francisco Miguel},
}