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Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workers
Author(s) -
Dasgupta Utteeyo,
Mani Subha,
Singh Prakarsh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12631
Subject(s) - hinduism , welfare , stochastic game , sample (material) , economics , field (mathematics) , sociology , demographic economics , social psychology , public economics , psychology , microeconomics , philosophy , chemistry , theology , mathematics , chromatography , pure mathematics , market economy
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.