Fractionalization and trust in India: A field-experiment

Is India’s high fractionalization associated with mistrust between its two main religious communities? An inter-ethnic trust game field experiment confirms intergroup bias in mutually lower offers between urban Muslims and Hindus in Mumbai. There are no differences in trustworthiness based on the religion of responders or of the co-players they respond to. Hindus generally have greater trust and expectations of others’ trust but also of ethnocentrism.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Chuah, Swee-Hoon ; Fahoum, Reema ; Hoffmann, Robert
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 119.2013, 2, p. 191-194
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Fractionalization \| India \| Trust \| Field experiment \| Discrimination

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C93 - Field Experiments ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; Z12 - Religion
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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