COMPETITIVE PREFERENCES AND ETHNICITY: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael
• 署名单位: Technical University of Munich; University of Southampton
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uez063
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 793-821
• 关键词: gender-differences; social identity; performance; POWER; DISCRIMINATION; matrilineal; INEQUALITY; CHILDREN; culture; people

摘要

We investigate whether aversion to competing against members of the ethnically dominant group could be a contributing factor to the persistent disadvantageous socioeconomic position of ethnic minorities. We conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Bangladesh, randomly assigning participants into groups with different ethnic composition. We find that the ethnic minority group (Santal) are less likely to compete in groups where they are a numerical minority than when all competitors are co-ethnic, whereas the reverse is true for the ethnic majority group (Bengali). Further analysis suggests that differences in social power and status underpin these differences in preferences for interethnic competition.