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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP16453
	DP16453 Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
	Gerard Roland; Michal Bauer; Jana Cahlíková; Julie Chytilová; Tomáš Želinský
发表日期	2021-08-14
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one’s own group shapes punishment of an unrelated bystander (“a scapegoat”). We manipulate the ethnic identity of the scapegoats and study interactions between the majority group and the Roma minority in Slovakia. We find that when no harm is done, there is no evidence of discrimination against the ethnic minority. In contrast, when a member of one’s own group is harmed, the punishment ”passed” on innocent individuals more than doubles when they are from the minority, as compared to when they are from the dominant group. These results illuminate how individualized tensions can be transformed into a group conflict, dragging minorities into conflicts in a way that is completely unrelated to their behavior.
主题	Development Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Punishment Minority groups Inter-group conflict Discrimination Scapegoating Lab-in-field experiments
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp16453
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545411
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gerard Roland,Michal Bauer,Jana Cahlíková,et al. DP16453 Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating. 2021.