Sherry Xin Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 6447105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherry Xin Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherry Xin |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI S X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2621-0626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social information, advice and altruistic behavior by underprivileged children
We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate how parents’, teachers’, and peers’ behavior and advice affect children’s altruism in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Colombia. Elementary school children choose how much to help a child-in-need in a real-effort task before and after learning about their parents’, teachers’, or peers’ decisions or receiving their advice. We find that both information and advice from these sources enhance chil…
Special issue on social dilemmas
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities
China shifted its controversial one-child policy (1979–2015) to a two-child policy in 2016. We take advantage of this unexpected policy change and the heterogeneities in the prechange environment to investigate labor market discrimination against expected family responsibilities. In a two-wave correspondence study before and after the policy change, we sent 8,848 fictitious resumes with ages 22–29 in response to online job advertisements. Their g…
Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure
Social identity and inequality
Group Identity and Social Preferences
We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member, they show a 47 percent increase in charity concerns and a 93 percent decrease in envy. Likewise, participants are 19 percent more likely to reward an ingroup match for good behavior, but 13 percent less likely to punish an ingroup match for misbehavior. Furthermore, partic…
Group Identity and Social Preferences
We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member, they show a 47 percent increase in charity concerns and a 93 percent decrease in envy. Likewise, participants are 19 percent more likely to reward an ingroup match for good behavior, but 13 percent less likely to punish an ingroup match for misbehavior. Furthermore, partic…
Social identity and inequality
Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities
China shifted its controversial one-child policy (1979–2015) to a two-child policy in 2016. We take advantage of this unexpected policy change and the heterogeneities in the prechange environment to investigate labor market discrimination against expected family responsibilities. In a two-wave correspondence study before and after the policy change, we sent 8,848 fictitious resumes with ages 22–29 in response to online job advertisements. Their g…
Special issue on social dilemmas
Social information, advice and altruistic behavior by underprivileged children
We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate how parents’, teachers’, and peers’ behavior and advice affect children’s altruism in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Colombia. Elementary school children choose how much to help a child-in-need in a real-effort task before and after learning about their parents’, teachers’, or peers’ decisions or receiving their advice. We find that both information and advice from these sources enhance chil…
Economics (4 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · China (2 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works) · Incentive (2 works)