Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lowe, Matt
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20191780
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1807-1844
• 关键词: INTERGROUP CONTACT; ethnic diversity; DISCRIMINATION; DYNAMICS; TRADE; LABOR

摘要

I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to homogeneous-caste or mixed-caste teams, and adversarial contact, through random assignment of opponents. Collaborative contact increases cross-caste friendships and efficiency in trade, and reduces own-caste favoritism. In contrast, adversarial contact generally reduces cross-caste interaction and efficiency. League participation reduces intergroup differences, suggesting that the positive aspects of intergroup contact more than offset the negative aspects in this setting.