Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234617 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2021-02
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Zürich
Abstract: 
We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. We find strong evidence for the presence of these two phenomena: our micro-analysis of within- and betweenschool effects show that bilingual students exhibit higher discriminatory behavior toward nonbilinguals within the same school than toward other bilinguals from a different school, implying that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition.
Subjects: 
socialization
in-group favouritism
out-group discrimination
cooperation
trust
trustworthiness
fairness
altruism
risk preference
JEL: 
C93
C70
D74
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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