Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India An experimental investigation

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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