Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202596 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2018-4
Publisher: 
Brown University, Department of Economics, Providence, RI
Abstract: 
We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which within and between group interactions occur among identifiable participants without traceability of individual decisions. We find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and that communication enhances inter-ethnic cooperation significantly. We also find that Uyghur and Han subjects behave differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with willingness to cooperate on the individual level.
Subjects: 
trust
cooperation
experiment
culture
ethnicity
discrimination
JEL: 
C91
O15
D64
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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