Skip to main content
Leavey School of Business Santa Clara University
Department ofEconomics

Selected Publications

Competitive Preferences among Asians in the U.S.

John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee

IZA DP No. 13913

 

Button to link people to research publications

Abstract:

The median income of Asian households is the highest of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. In a laboratory experiment, we examine whether Asians are more willing to compete and have greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. Both with and without controls for performance, performance improvement, and confidence, we find that Asians have significantly greater competitive preferences than non-Asians.

LSB Research, ECON, John Ifcher, Working Papers