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Sigrid Suetens

Discriminative preferences and fairness ideals in diverse societies

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Do social preferences of the native majority in Europe depend on others’ ethnicity? Are people from the majority as altruistic, reciprocal, envious to ethnic minorities as compared to other majority? Do they have different fairness ideals—what constitutes a fair distribution of resources from the perspective of an impartial spectator—when it comes to people from the majority than when it comes to people with a minority background? Do these preferences depend on exposure to ethnic minorities, and, if so, how? 
These questions are at the heart of the ERC project.

Who is on the team?

Pascal Achard
Riccardo Ghidoni
​Phuc Phung
Yi Sheng
​Sigrid Suetens
​Paul van Bruggen

Academic publications and working papers

​P. Achard, S. Albrecht, R. Ghidoni, E. Cettolin and S. Suetens. The effect of exposure to ethnic minorities on ethnic preferences. CEPR Discussion paper 17294, 2022.
P. Achard. Ethnic enclaves and cultural assimilation. CentER Discussion paper 2022-011.
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X. Xu, J. Potters and S. Suetens. Competitive versus cooperative interactions and in-group bias. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 179, 69-79, 2020.
​E. Cettolin and S. Suetens. Return on trust is lower for immigrants. Economic Journal
. vol. 129, 1992-2009, 2019. 

Work in progress

P. Achard and S. Suetens. The effect of ethnic diversity on support for redistribution and the role of discrimination.
A. Cappelen, E. Cettolin, F.S. Evirgen, S. Suetens and B. Tungodden. Moral wiggling and ethnic discrimination. (pre-registration)
P. Phung, B. van Leeuwen and S. Suetens. Emotional discrimination. (pre-registration)

Y. Sheng and S. Suetens. Understanding discriminatory preferences. (pre-registration) 
S. Suetens and P. van Bruggen. Revealed ethnic discrimination.
Z. Murad, E. Ozturk, Y. Sheng and S. Suetens. Socially desirable behavior towards ethnic minorities.

For policy makers

Taste-based discrimination: How does it work? Open Access Government. September 22, 2020. 

Tastes in discrimination research. EU Research. Spring 2020.

Events

Online Symposium on Social Cohesion in Ethnically Diverse Societies on October 26 & 27, 2020

Links

Tilburg economists studying ethnic diversity in societies
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Project website of the European Commission
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