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Trust towards Migrants

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  • Gandelman, Néstor
  • Lamé, Diego

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Using a standard trust game, we elicit trust and reciprocity measures in a representative sample of adult players in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, a country that exhibits relatively better levels of tolerance towards migrants than other Latin American countries. We find no statistically significant differences in trust levels of Uruguayans towards countrymen versus migrants. In reciprocity, we find only marginally significant differences attributable to the nationality of the players.

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  • Gandelman, Néstor & Lamé, Diego, 2021. "Trust towards Migrants," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 11602, Inter-American Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:11602
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003616
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    Keywords

    Trust; Reciprocity; Experimental games; Migrations;
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    JEL classification:

    • C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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