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Social Preferences in a Chinese Cultural Context

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  • Saileshsingh Gunessee, Tom Lane and Shangjue Xie

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This paper investigates the effects of social distance and national bias on social preferences in China. In a field experiment featuring a diverse subject pool, we implement an incentivised dictator game, in which we vary the way decision-makers are primed to think about their social distance from the potential recipients of their generosity, as well as the nationality of these recipients. We find that decision-makers become substantially less pro-social when primed social distance increases. However, national bias is not found – there is no evidence subjects are willing to give more money to Chinese strangers than to unknown foreigners. The effects of social distance emerge more strongly at closer levels of distance for those who are rural, low-educated and poor, while they appear more strongly at greater levels of distance for their urban, high-educated and rich counterparts.

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  • Saileshsingh Gunessee, Tom Lane and Shangjue Xie, 2021. "Social Preferences in a Chinese Cultural Context," Review of Behavioral Economics, now publishers, vol. 8(2), pages 125-145, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlrbe:105.00000135
    DOI: 10.1561/105.00000135
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    Keywords

    Anarchy; Social preferences; social distance; network; nationalism; dictator game;
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    JEL classification:

    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making

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