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100	1		_aBauer, Michal.
245	1	0	_aShifting Punishment on Minorities: _bExperimental Evidence of Scapegoating / _cMichal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová, Gérard Roland, Tomas Zelinsky.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w29157
500			_aAugust 2021.
520	3		_aThis 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.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
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538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aC93 - Field Experiments _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aD74 - Conflict • Conflict Resolution • Alliances • Revolutions _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aD91 - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aJ15 - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants • Non-labor Discrimination _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aCahlíková, Jana.
700	1		_aChytilová, Julie.
700	1		_aRoland, Gérard.
700	1		_aZelinsky, Tomas.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w29157.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w29157
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29157
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