Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Conflict: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India
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...
Paper Details
Title
Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Conflict: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India
Published Date
Oct 21, 2016
Journal
Volume
11
Issue
10
Pages
e0164708 - e0164708
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