讲座主题：The Prisoners’ Redemption: A Field Experiment on Charitable Contribution by Chinese Prison Inmates

主 讲 人：梁平汉教授

讲座时间：2016年11月1日（周二）13:00

讲座地点：浦东校区五号教学楼414会议室

讲座摘要：

   This paper addresses how the social identity affects the pro-social behavior and in-group favoritism among inmates. We conduct a field experiment in a typical Chinese jail and introduce a real-effort charitable contribution scheme into the inmates’ ordinary workplace. The amount of charity is tied to the inmates’ output. The main treatment variable is the social identity of the beneficiary. During the five-day experiment, inmates exhibit substantial pro-social behavior: the average output raises 3.4--11%. There is also evidence of in-group favoritism in that the output increases more when the beneficiary is tied to the prisoner identity. However, when the beneficiary is tied to the prisoner identity, the inmates with long incarceration spells have significantly lower output than those with short incarceration spell, indicating that the stronger prisoner identity weaken the inmates’ in-group favoritism. We suggest that the competitive culture among inmates might explain the negative effects of group identity associated with the prison inmates.

主讲人简介：

    梁平汉现任中山大学政治与公共事务管理学院教授，博士生导师；西班牙巴塞罗那自治大学经济学博士。主要研究博弈论、实验经济学、政治经济学、发展经济学等。世界计量经济协会、欧洲和平科学研究网络、世界经济科学协会等学术社团会员，四川省知识分子联谊会理事、四川省侨联青年委员会委员。在Games and Economic Behavior、Journal of Comparative Economics、Pacific Economic Review、Review of Development Economics、《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《经济学（季刊）》、《世界经济》等国内外权威学术期刊上发表论文十余篇。获霍英东教育基金会第十五届高等院校青年教师奖，入选美国马奎斯《世界名人录》（第32版），“第十一批四川省学术和技术带头人后备人选”。多次获得省部级科研成果奖和国家级课题资助。

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                                                                 国际经贸学院

                                                                2016年10月26日