American Economic Review Vol. 99 No. 5 2009

Individual Behavior and Group Membership: Comment

Matthias Sutter

Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, Universitaetsstrasse 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria, and Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg.

Abstract

Charness et al. (2007b) have shown that group membership has a strong effect on individual decisions in strategic games when group membership is salient through payoff commonality. In this comment, I show that their findings also apply to nonstrategic decisions, even when no outgroup exists, and I relate the effects of group membership on individual decisions to joint decision making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the same as team decisions. This finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects.

DOI

10.1257/aer.99.5.2247

Volume

99

Issue

5

Pages

2247-2257

Language

en

Sources

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