Type | Working Paper - IZA Discussion Paper |
Title | Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India An experimental investigation |
Author(s) | |
Issue | 10048 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2016 |
URL | http://ftp.iza.org/dp10048.pdf |
Abstract | This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the child caregivers. We also weigh-in on the usefulness of non-incentivized experiments in discrimination experiments. |
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