dc.contributor.author | Chakravarty, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Fonseca, MA | |
dc.contributor.author | Ghosh, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Marjit, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-31T15:01:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-10-21 | |
dc.description.abstract | We examine the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on
behavior in Tullock contests. We report on a series of two-player Tullock contest
experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and Muslim participants in rural West
Bengal, India. Our treatments are the identity of the two players and the degree of
religious fragmentation in the village where subjects reside. Our main finding is that
the effect of social identity is small and inconsistent across the two religious groups in
our study. While we find small but statistically significant results in line with our
hypotheses in the Hindu sample, we find no statistically significant effects in the
Muslim sample. This is in contrast to evidence from Chakravarty et al. (2016), who
report significant differences in cooperation levels in prisoners’ dilemma and stag hunt
games, both in terms of village composition and identity. We attribute this to the fact
that social identity may have a more powerful effect on cooperation than on conflict. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This project was funded by the ESRC
through its poverty alleviation programme, grant
number ES/J018643/1. ESRC’s website can be
found at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 11, e0164708 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0164708 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25487 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27768713 | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright: © 2016 Chakravarty et al. This is an
open access article distributed under the terms of
the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original
author and source are credited | en_GB |
dc.title | Religious fragmentation, social identity and conflict: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-31T15:01:53Z | |
dc.contributor.editor | Brañas-Garza, P | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | PLoS ONE | en_GB |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC5074556 | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 27768713 | |