Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286870 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
MUNI ECON Working Paper No. 2023-09
Publisher: 
Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno
Abstract: 
While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on cooperation within equal groups. When all groups are poor or rich, their contribution behaviour is very similar. Relative inequality, when poor and rich groups coexist, leads to lower contributions in rich groups. Our results suggest that this is related to a combination of within- and between-group inequality aversion and to stereotypes about the rich contributing less than the poor
Subjects: 
between-group
resource inequality
cooperation
public goods
online experiment
beliefs
JEL: 
C72
C91
C92
D63
H41
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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