Social‐benefits stigma and subsequent competitiveness.
We conduct a laboratory experiment to explore how benefit‐eligibility stigma drives subsequent decisions to enter competition. We induce a stigma associated with a low‐status benefit and then introduce "plausible deniability" to reduce this stigma by expanding benefit eligibility to a middle‐status...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 903 - 926 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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