We invite you to a FAIR Seminar with Sigrid Suetens. Suetens is a Professor at Tilburg University an her main research interests are strategic and non-strategic incentives to cooperate and ethnic discrimination.
Title: Ethnic salience and discrimination
Abstract: This paper combines data from three behavioral experiments aimed at investigating ethnic discrimination. In each experiment, individuals belonging to the majority population made choices that affected the payoff of one or more other individuals. Due to the timing of the waves, each experiment exhibited natural variation in ethnic issue salience. We find that decision-makers in all three experiments became more generous toward minority-group individuals during periods of heightened ethnic salience, while their behavior toward majority-group individuals remained unchanged. We provide evidence indicating that the observed effect is primarily driven by strengthened image concerns during periods of high ethnic salience.