Original title: Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
Authors: Kudashvili, Nikoloz ; Lergetporer, P.
Document type: Research reports
Year: 2019
Language: eng
Series: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, volume: 644
Abstract: Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about strategies minorities may apply to minimize discrimination. In our trust game with 758 highschool students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to investigate Armenians’ willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees untruthfully signal that they have a Georgian name. Signaling behavior is driven by expected transfers and non-pecuniary motives. This strategic misrepresentation of ethnicity increases Georgian trustors’ expected back transfers and eliminates their discriminatory behavior.\n
Keywords: discrimination; experiment; trust game
Project no.: GA17-13869S (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR

Institution: Economics Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at external website.
External URL: https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp644.pdf
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0301643

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