TY - JOUR
T1 - Stereotypes and Madrassas
T2 - Experimental evidence from Pakistan
AU - Delavande, Adeline
AU - Zafar, Basit
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Yann Algan, Olivier Armentier, Stephan Meier, Luis Santos Pinto, Ernesto Reuben, Jacob Shapiro, Luis Vasconcelos, and seminar participants at the 2013 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries, ASREC 2011 Meetings, Bocconi University, IMEBE 2011 Meetings, NBER 2011 Conference on Economics of Culture and Institutions, North American 2010 ESA Meetings, NY Fed Brown Bag, Rutgers University and University of Essex for helpful comments. Elizabeth Setren and, in particular, Elizabeth Brown and Maricar Mabutas provided outstanding research assistance. We are enormously indebted to Ali Cheema, Hisham Tariq, Noor Aslam, our local field teams and participating institutions for without their assistance this project would not have reached its conclusion. Funding through a RAND Independent Research and Development grant is gratefully acknowledged. Delavande also acknowledges funding from the Economic and Social Research Council Research Centre on Micro-social Change (MISOC). The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System as a whole. Any errors that remain are ours.
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PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Little is known about the behavior of Madrassa (Islamic religious seminaries) students, and how other groups in their communities interact with them. To investigate this, we use data from economic decision-making experiments embedded in a survey that we collected from students pursuing bachelors-equivalent degrees in Madrassas and other educational institutions of distinct religious tendencies and socioeconomic background in Pakistan. First, we do not find that Madrassa students are less trusting of others; in fact, they exhibit the highest level of other-regarding behavior, and expect others to be the most trustworthy. Second, there is a high level of trust among all groups. Third, within each institution group, we fail to find evidence of in-group bias or systematic out-group bias either in trust or tastes. Fourth, we find that students from certain backgrounds under-estimate the trustworthiness of Madrassa students.
AB - Little is known about the behavior of Madrassa (Islamic religious seminaries) students, and how other groups in their communities interact with them. To investigate this, we use data from economic decision-making experiments embedded in a survey that we collected from students pursuing bachelors-equivalent degrees in Madrassas and other educational institutions of distinct religious tendencies and socioeconomic background in Pakistan. First, we do not find that Madrassa students are less trusting of others; in fact, they exhibit the highest level of other-regarding behavior, and expect others to be the most trustworthy. Second, there is a high level of trust among all groups. Third, within each institution group, we fail to find evidence of in-group bias or systematic out-group bias either in trust or tastes. Fourth, we find that students from certain backgrounds under-estimate the trustworthiness of Madrassa students.
KW - Experiments
KW - Group identity and behavior
KW - Madrassa
KW - Trust
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.03.020
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.03.020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84942549774
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 118
SP - 247
EP - 267
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ER -