The Effect of Group Identity on Distributive Choice: Social Preference or Heuristic?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Guala, Francesco; Filippin, Antonio
• 署名单位: University of Milan; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12311
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1047-1068
• 关键词: individual behavior; group affiliation; Group membership; dictator game; Group bias; team; fairness

摘要

Group identity can influence significantly people's attitudes towards monetary allocations. In this article, we reassess the representation of group identity using social preference models. First, we show that the influence of group identity varies unsystematically across different types of mini-dictator games and cannot be described using a well-behaved preference function. Second, we demonstrate that the effect is not robust to slightly increasing the complexity of the task, suggesting that group identity is a framing effect that can be easily displaced by alternative decision heuristics.