The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games
| dc.contributor.advisor | Burns, Justine | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kreft, Brynde | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-17T11:09:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-17T11:09:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-02-17T10:06:12Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The intergenerational transmission of inequality causes individuals to receive unearned advantages and disadvantages in society. Understanding how the transmission of unearned material status affects social interactions will help to illuminate how the relationship between material status and social connections affects an individual’s overall welfare. The behavioural responses to intergenerational inequality have proven difficult to isolate in observational data. In a series of laboratory experiments, an inherited inequality framing was shown to cause significantly different public good game contribution behaviour for various types of individual. While inheritance status improved cooperation among those who inherited a high status in groups with only others who inherited high endowments, the inheritance frame is associated with reduced cooperation in unequal groups and in groups comprised of exclusively inheritors of low material status. The inheritance frame established a powerful historical context for participants, the reduction in cooperation caused by inherited inequality persisted even after redistribution interventions which eliminated the material inequality. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Kreft, B. (2019). <i>The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games</i>. (). ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31135 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Kreft, Brynde. <i>"The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games."</i> ., ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31135 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kreft, B. 2019. The Heritability of History: How inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Kreft, Brynde AB - The intergenerational transmission of inequality causes individuals to receive unearned advantages and disadvantages in society. Understanding how the transmission of unearned material status affects social interactions will help to illuminate how the relationship between material status and social connections affects an individual’s overall welfare. The behavioural responses to intergenerational inequality have proven difficult to isolate in observational data. In a series of laboratory experiments, an inherited inequality framing was shown to cause significantly different public good game contribution behaviour for various types of individual. While inheritance status improved cooperation among those who inherited a high status in groups with only others who inherited high endowments, the inheritance frame is associated with reduced cooperation in unequal groups and in groups comprised of exclusively inheritors of low material status. The inheritance frame established a powerful historical context for participants, the reduction in cooperation caused by inherited inequality persisted even after redistribution interventions which eliminated the material inequality. DA - 2019 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Applied Economics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2019 T1 - The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games TI - The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31135 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31135 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Kreft B. The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games. []. ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2019 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31135 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | School of Economics | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | |
| dc.subject | Applied Economics | |
| dc.title | The heritability of history: how inherited status affects cooperative behaviour in public goods games | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationname | MCom |