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Creating cohesive communities : a youth camp experiment in India
Ghosh, Arkadev; Kundu, Prerna; Lowe, Matt; Nellis, Gareth - 2024
Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the potential for youth camps—integrating rituals, sports, and civics training—to strengthen intergroup cohesion. We randomly assigned Hindu and Muslim...
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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019
investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … strategic misrepresentation of ethnicity increases Georgian trustors' expected back transfers and eliminates their …
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Human capital affects religious identity : causal evidence from Kenya
Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023
experiment (deworming) that has exogenously boosted education and living standards. The main finding is that the program reduces …
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Learning about outgroups : the impact of broad versus deep interactions
Chakraborty, Anujit; Ghosh, Arkadev; Lowe, Matt; … - 2024
We hypothesize that broad contact, involving brief interactions with multiple outgroup members, and deep contact, meaning longer interactions with a single outgroup member, play distinct roles in shaping intergroup relations. We set up a factory in India and recruited Hindu and Muslim men to...
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Self-serving biases in beliefs about collective outcomes
Kogan, Shimon; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing—documented for beliefs...
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Friendship networks and political opinions : a natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2023
We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences …
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Politicized scientists : credibility cost of political expression on Twitter
Alabrese, Eleonora; Capozza, Francesco; Garg, Prashant - 2024
experiment assesses the impact of online political expression on a representative sample of 1,700 U.S. respondents, who rated …
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Discrimination at young age : experimental evidence from preschool children
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018
Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a … framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and group affiliation). Discrimination is prevalent in our subjects …
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Racial group affinity and religious giving : evidence from congregation-level panel data
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - 2014
Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...
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Historical antisemitism, ethnic specialization, and financial development
D'Acunto, Francesco; Prokopczuk, Marcel; Weber, Michael - 2017
For centuries, Jews in Europe have specialized in financial services. At the same time, they have been the victims of historical antisemitism on the part of the Christian majority. We find that present-day financial development is lower in German counties where historical antisemitism was...
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