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ECIN Replication Package for "Social-Benefits Stigma and Subsequent Competitiveness"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Natalia I. Valdez Gonzalez, Universitat de Barcelona; Alexander L. Brown, Texas A&M University; Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University

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Project Citation:

Valdez Gonzalez, Natalia I., Brown, Alexander L., and Palma, Marco A. ECIN Replication Package for “Social-Benefits Stigma and Subsequent Competitiveness.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-01-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/E217164V1

Project Description

Summary: We conduct a laboratory experiment to explore how benefit-eligibility stigma drives subsequent decisions to enter competition. We induce a stigma associated with a low-status benefit and then introduce "plausible deniability'' to reduce this stigma by expanding benefit eligibility to a middle-status group. When newly-eligible individuals qualify for the benefit, their rate of entry into a subsequent and unrelated tournament is reduced by 17-20 percentage points compared to the treatment in which they do not qualify. A potential interpretation of our results would suggest expanding for certain government assistance programs may produce unintended consequences for the newly eligible.

Funding Sources: International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
      D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

Manuscript Number: ECIN-Jan-2024-0055.R2

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V2 [2025-02-21]

V1 [2025-01-31]

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