India Ethnicity Experiment

Description of Project:

Detailed Protocol (coming soon)

Detailed Survey (coming soon)

Papers:

“Caste, Cross-cutting Cleavages & Public Goods Provision in India.” To be presented at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, September 2011, Seattle (with Thomas Bossuroy).

Inter-Ethnic Associations, Out-Group Tensions and Inter-Personal Transfers: An Experiment in Chennai, India. To be presented at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, September 2011, Seattle. (with Michael Davidson).

Affirmative Action, Social Mobility and the Politics of Caste in India. Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Hawaii, 2011. (with Thomas Bossuroy and Jerome Samraj).

“Social Divisions, Interpersonal Transfers and Public Goods: A field-lab experiment amongst slum populations in India.” To be presented at the International Conference on Social Cohesion and Development, 20-21 January 2011, Paris, France. Organized by the OECD Development Centre, with the financial support of Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP).

Overview of Project

In conjunction with Thomas Bossuroy (World Bank) we set out to replicate and extend several parts of the Habyarimana, Humphreys, Posner and Weinstein ethnicity experiment in Uganda. Some of the key extensions included:

1. Providing explicit information on other players' ethnicity

2. Providing information on other cleavages, including religion, level of education, and neighborhood

3. A more extensive set of questions to elicit preferences over public goods

4. A more extensive accompanying survey on topic such as membership in civic associations and political behavior

We also played two additional games:

1. Cues game: We provided participants various cues to see if they could correctly guess other players' caste, religion, level of education, etc.

2. Beauty game: We had players evaluate the attractiveness of other players.

Documentation:

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