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. 2022 Jan-Jun;15(1):98–125. doi: 10.21500/20112084.5434

Table 2. Overview of Included Studies.

Reference Study type Aims of the study Phenomena Intervention Application Comparison Outcome Measure
Ahmed (2007) Experimental economics To study how group identity, social distance, and intergroup bias may affect economic decision-making. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (cooperate, stag, and dovish)
Andreoni and Petri (2008) Experimental economics To explore the returns to beauty and gender. Stereotypes Behavioral economics Direct study on stereotypes Experiences of discrimination (average contribution and average payoff)
Ben-Ner et al. (2009) Experimental economics To investigate the existence and relative strength of favoritism for in-group versus outgroup along with multiple identity categories. Discrimination Labor market Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (giving, sharing the office, work, and commute).
Bjorvatn and Tungodden (2015) Experimental economics To study the impact of social identity on confidence and the role of disability identity in shaping confidence, preferences, and performance. Stereotypes Behavioral economics Direct study on stereotypes Experiences of (self) stereotyping (performance, confidence, risk-, time-, socialand competitiveness preferences)
Bohnet et al. (2016) Experimental economics To examine whether evaluating candidates jointly rather than separately leads to individual performance playing a more important role than group stereotypes. Stereotypes Labor market Labor market application that influences the phenomenon Experiences of stereotyping and discrimination (candidates’ performance and evaluators’ choices)
Candelo et al. (2017) Experimental economics To investigate how identity and social exclusion influence individual contributions to fund local public goods. Social exclusion Behavioral economics Direct study on social exclusion Public policy and social change (social identity, social exclusion, and amount contributed)
Carlin and Love (2013) Experimental economics To advance a political theory of trust and reciprocity by testing dual-process strategies based on social identity and cognitive heuristics. Stereotypes Behavioral economics Direct study on stereotypes Experiences of discrimination (trust, reciprocity, partisanship, and amount sent)
Chen et al. (2014) Experimental economics To investigate the effects of highlighting a common versus fragmenting identity on coordination and cooperation in a series of prisoner’s dilemmas and minimum effort games with varying incentives. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Public policy and social change (priming fragmenting identity versus common organization identity, coordination, and cooperation)
Furuya (2002) Theoretical model To characterize an economic mechanism through which stigma could give rise to a socially inefficient equilibrium. Stigmatization Labor market Direct study on stigmatization Public policy and social change (welfare analysis -the marginal effect of social acceptance on social deviance and the size of the social cost relative to the possible private damage)
Grimm et al. (2017) Experimental economics To investigate how and why people discriminate among different groups, including their own group and multiple outgroups. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (transfers and beliefs)
Grosskopf and Pearce (2017) Experimental economics To examine the discriminatory motives of the poorest people in England. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (amount is given and closeness)
Güth et al. (2009) Experimental economics To test whether the positive effect on the self from common group identity increased other-regarding behavior towards in-group members. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (choices and beliefs -first and second-order- about average amount transferred)
Halevy et al. (2012) Experimental economics To distinguish whether individual participation in intergroup conflict can be motivated by “in-group love”, “outgroup hate”, or both. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Public policy and social change (universal defection, intragroup cooperation, or intergroup competition - average amount kept or contributed-)
Heinrich (2013) Theoretical model To get a picture of the forces driving negative stereotypes and to deduce policies to reduce them. Stereotypes Behavioral economics Direct study on stereotypes and discrimination Public policy and social change (average evaluation of group members by decision-makers and effects of affirmative action on in groupoutgroup and between-groups discrimination)
Jenkins et al. (2018) Experimental economics To investigate how warmth and competence stereotypes influence social valuation and to what degree it is possible to predict people’s treatment of members of a wide variety of social groups. Stereotypes Behavioral economics Direct study on stereotypes Experiences of discrimination (social perception -warmth and competence stereotypes- and social valuation -equity preferences- according to the amount given)
Meleady and Seger (2017) Experimental economics To examine the effect of imagined contact on cooperative behavior towards outgroup members. Prejudices Behavioral economics Behavioral intervention/ application that influences the phenomenon Experiences of discrimination (cooperative and competitive choices and trust)
Ouazad and Page (2013) Experimental economics To estimate students’ perceptions of grading discrimination. Discrimination Education sector Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (students investment choice -number of questions bought- and grading practices -teacher and external examiner-)
Pondorfer et al. (2017) Experimental economics To examine gender differences in stereotypes about risk preferences of men and women. Stereotypes Behavioral economics Direct study on stereotypes Experiences of stereotyping (risk preferences -own gamble choice and predictions of others’ gamble choices)
Saccardo (2015) Experimental economics To present evidence of prejudice-based ethnic discrimination. Prejudice Behavioral economics Direct study on prejudices and discrimination Experiences of discrimination (prosocial and welfare-maximizing choices -payoffs- sending a false -a lie- or a truthful message, reject offers, beliefs about amount offered by subjects with different ethnicity names)
Schwartzstein (2014) Theoretical model To draw out the consequences of selective attention in a model of an agent who makes forecasts based on available information. Heuristics and biases Behavioral economics Direct study on heuristics and biases Experiences of stereotyping and discrimination (systematically biased stereotypes and beliefs and limiting forecast)
Shcherbakov (2016) Experimental economics To investigate stigma against individuals with ASD in the workplace. Stigmatization Labor market Direct study on stigmatization Experiences of discrimination (demographic questions, salary increase -willingness to accept-, social distance scale, knowledge of autism spectrum disorder [ASD], and taboo trade-off)
Stanley et al. (2011) Experimental economics To investigate the relationship between implicit race attitude and social trust. Heuristics and biases Behavioral economics Direct study on heuristics and/o biases Relational performance (trustworthiness ratings, economic offers, and IAT scores).
Tanaka and Camerer (2016) Experimental economics To measure the stereotyped attitudes of one group toward another. Stereotypes Behavioral economics Direct study on stereotypes Experiences of discrimination (impure altruism, altruistic punishment, reciprocity, trust, and coordination -according to the chosen amount in games-)
Tsutsui and Zizzo (2014) Experimental economics To look at how changing relative group size and changing group status affects trust and trustworthiness. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (trust -giving and return rates- and perceived value measurement)
van Ewijk (2011) Experimental economics To examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Discrimination Education sector Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (grade and expectations for the essays attributed to different ethnicity students)
Zeitzoff (2018) Experimental economics To measure how anger over past conflict influences intergroup relations. Discrimination Behavioral economics Direct study on discrimination Experiences of discrimination (altruism -monetary choices-)