In-Group versus Out-Group Trust: The Impact of Income Inequality.

In this article, we adopt a variant of the trust game by Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995) and the dictator game by Cox (2004) to determine if income inequality can activate in-group favoritism and, if so, whether such a bias is strong enough to survive the removal of income inequality. We find evid...

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Published in:	Southern Economic Journal Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 1049 - 1064
Main Authors:	Lei, Vivian, Vesely, Filip
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Apr2010
Subjects:	Income inequality Income Social cohesion Trust Social classes Equality
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