Conflict and reciprocity: A study with Palestinian youths

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cavatorta, Elisa; Zizzo, Daniel John; Daoud, Yousef
• 署名单位: University of London; King's College London; University of Queensland; Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; Birzeit University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102989
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: reciprocity; COOPERATION; CONFLICT; VIOLENCE; Palestine

摘要

This paper studies how reciprocity in the forms of conditional cooperation and vindictive behavior is affected by differential exposure to conflict. We use experimental games to measure preferences of adolescents living in the West Bank, and their obligation to cross military checkpoints to go to school as a proxy for differential exposure to the conflict. We find that adolescents who have an obligation to cross military checkpoints to go to school engage in more reciprocal behavior: they more frequently cooperate in response to cooperative behavior and retaliate against hostile behavior. Part of the effect is explained by changes in the beliefs about their peers' behavior. A re-analysis of micro-datasets from other conflict contexts provides evidence of the generalizability of our results.