The Dictator Game, Fairness and Ethnicity in Postwar Bosnia

By Sam Whitt, Rick K. Wilson. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Violence, displacement, contact, and attitudes toward hosting refugees (2019, background): “This includes lower than expected out-group biases in Bosnia (Whitt & Wilson, 2007), higher than expected within-group trust in Burundi (Voors et al., 2012) and Nepal (Gilligan, Pasquale & Samii, 2014), and increased political mobilization and collective action in Sierra Leone (Bellows & Miguel,…”
Culture and Institutions (2015, unknown): “Whitt and Wilson (2007), for example, in looking at how people treat their in-group and their out-group,”
Field experiments across the social sciences (2017, background): “For example, several studies find that allocators make similar contributions to in-group and out-group members; this is the case among Eastern and Ashkenazi Jews in Israel (Fershtman & Gneezy 2001), Kazakhs and Torguuds in Mongolia (Gil-White 2004), ethnic groups in Uganda (Habyarimana et al. 2009),”
Ingroup favoritism in cooperation: a meta-analysis. (2014, methodology): “…N PD C $ IT (10) 2 Wang & Yamagishi (2005) 46 .45 CN 0.22 [ 0.09, 0.53] M TG C $ OS 2 0.22 Study 2 42 .45 CN 0.05 [ 0.27, 0.37] M FG C $ OS 2 0.04 Whitt & Wilson (2007)a 252 .50 BA 0.37 [0.22, 0.52] N DG C $ OS 2 Study 2a 203 .50 HR 0.24 [0.07, 0.40] N DG C $ OS 2 Study 3a 216 .50 HR 0.27 [0.11,…”
Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda (2012, background): “There is also a conﬂict-related literature based on lab and ﬁeld experiments, including Fearon et al. (2009), Gilligan et al. (2010), Miguel et al. (2011), Voors et al. (2012), and Whitt and Rick (2007).”
Fear and anger as predictors of motivation for intergroup aggression: Evidence from Serbia and Republika Srpska (2010, background): “Even though some resentment still exists, the quantity and quality of intergroup contact seems to be increasing, and contact is linked to improving intergroup attitudes (Cehajic, Brown, & Castano, 2008; see also Whitt & Wilson, 2007).”
NEEDS VERSUS ENTITLEMENTS—AN INTERNATIONAL FAIRNESS EXPERIMENT (2013, background): “Whitt and Wilson (2007) shed light on the latter issue, by showing that Bosnjaks, Croats, and Serbs participating in a dictator game in post-war Bosnia–Herzegovina to a surprisingly small degree favored participants of the same ethnicity.”
Can Social Contact Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria (2018, background): “15 See Camerer (2003) for a comprehensive review of the empirical literature and Whitt and Wilson (2007) for studies using the dictator game to measure fairness norms.”