The effect of online reputation systems on intergroup inequality

Abstract: Recent studies state that online reputation systems may decrease or even eliminate intergroup inequality. These studies base their conclusion on the finding that the presence of reputation information may decrease platform users’ reliance on demographic information. However, these findings tell only part of the story of the relation between reputation systems and intergroup inequality: they overlook the problem that reputation systems help those who obtained at least one review but may negatively affect those individuals who have not participated in interactions before. This study is the first to take the endogeneity of the reputation building process into account by providing a direct test of differences in inequality between individuals of different nationality between a situation with and without a reputation system. Using a preregistered online experiment, I show that inequality between American and Indian individuals is not lower when there is a reputation system than when the

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Postprint ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ; 96 (2022) ; 1-56

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Kas, Judith

Further information

• DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2021.101800
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023010406465470824296
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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