A city-wide experiment on trust discrimination

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-27

  Falk, Armin ^a   Zehnder, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Field experiment; In group effect; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874408510     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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