Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workers. Issue 2 (29th January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Singh, Prakarsh
• Is Part Of: Review of development economics. Volume 24:Issue 2(2020:May)
• Page Start: 362
• Page End: 382
• Publication Date: 2020-01-29
• Subjects: dictator game -- discrimination -- lab‐in‐the‐field experiment -- social preference; Economic development -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1111/rode.12631
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1363-6669

Abstract

Abstract: We implement a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment among childcare workers in Chandigarh, India, to evaluate discriminatory attitudes of the Hindu workers toward Muslim children. We use a third‐party allocation game that controls for selfish payoff‐maximizing preferences across the treatments and focus exclusively on distributional attitudes. Our results indicate that the workers in our sample are primarily motivated by welfare‐based criteria in making their allocation decisions and do not practice discrimination based on religious identities.