Friedrichsen, Jana
[VerfasserIn]
;
König, Tobias
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Schmacker, Renke
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Erschienen in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 6519
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (39 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2999722
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Beschreibung:
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how the transfer is financed. We find that subjects avoid the inference both of being low-skilled and of being willing to live off others. Using a placebo treatment we can exclude other explanations for the observed stigma effect. In the experiment, social stigmatization implies a reduction in the take-up rate of 30 percentage points