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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
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SYSNO ASEP 0511356 Document Type V - Research Report R&D Document Type O - Ostatní Title Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination? Author(s) Kudashvili, Nikoloz (NHU-N)
Lergetporer, P. (DE)Issue data Prague: CERGE-EI, 2019 ISSN 1211-3298 Series CERGE-EI Working Paper Series Series number 644 Number of pages 46 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords discrimination ; trust game ; experiment Subject RIV AH - Economics OECD category Applied Economics, Econometrics R&D Projects GA17-13869S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support NHU-N - RVO:67985998 Annotation 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.
Workplace Economics Institute Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2020 Electronic address https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp644.pdf
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