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      <dc:title>Which social categories matter to people: An experiment</dc:title>
      <dc:creator>Adnan, Wifag</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Arin, K. Peren</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Charness, Gary</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Lacomba Arias, Juan Antonio</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Lagos García, Francisco Miguel</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>Social categories</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Gender</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Religion</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Ethnicity</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Discrimination</dc:subject>
      <dc:description>We would like to thank Zayed University for the financial support through RIF&#xd;
R19064 grant. Juan A. Lacomba and Francisco M. Lagos also acknowledge support from PGC2018-&#xd;
097811-B-I00 and A-SEJ-151-UGR18.</dc:description>
      <dc:description>Social categories matter to people, but it is not obvious ex ante which ones matter more.&#xd;
To explore this, we conduct a novel experimental market of anonymous partners based on&#xd;
social categories. Participants have the option of choosing or discarding a peer according to&#xd;
their gender, ethnicity, and religion. Our research design allows us to explore whether in-&#xd;
dividuals prioritize social categories when selecting a peer and whether the order in which&#xd;
social categories are prioritized is context dependent. Considering both free and costly de-&#xd;
cisions, two economic contexts are evaluated: donations (dictator game) and investments&#xd;
(risk game). We find that when selecting a partner, gender appears to be the dominant&#xd;
social category across different conditions, with subjects exhibiting sharp preferences for&#xd;
being matched with a female partner. However, the partner’s religion gains prominence&#xd;
as a requested social category when issues concerning social-group decision-making be-&#xd;
come relevant to one’s own payoffs. Finally, we find that choosing social categories seems&#xd;
to have economic consequences both by increasing economic donations and increasing in-&#xd;
vestments.</dc:description>
      <dc:date>2026-01-14T10:50:29Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2026-01-14T10:50:29Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2022</dc:date>
      <dc:type>journal article</dc:type>
      <dc:identifier>Published version: Adnan, Wifag et al. Which social categories matter to people: An experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior &amp; Organization Volume 193, January 2022, Pages 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.010</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/10481/109674</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.010</dc:identifier>
      <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
      <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</dc:rights>
      <dc:rights>open access</dc:rights>
      <dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional</dc:rights>
      <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
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