Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities

By K. Hoff, Priyanka Pandey. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Collective Action and Community Development: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India (2013, background): “communal inequities are endemic even in relatively (ethnically) homogenous communities, and these inequities are often reflected in public goods choices (Pande 2003; Chattopadhyay and Duflo 2004; Hoff and Pandey 2006) We would expect, therefore, that any successful effort to promote cooperation by S”
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences (2011, neutral): “…the problem 7 (Kahneman and Tversky 1979), the “anchor” (Ariely, Loewenstein, and Prelec 2003), and the salience of an aspect of one’s social identity (Hoff and Pandey 2006, 2011; LeBoeuf, Shafir and Bayuk 2010; Benjamin, Choi, and Strickland 2010).5 A striking example of the power of anchors to…”
Making up people—The effect of identity on performance in a modernizing society (2014, background): “To test the hypothesis, we draw on our experiment in rural India that manipulates the classroom setting in which high-caste and low-caste students are asked to learn and perform a new skill under incentives (Hoff and Pandey 2006).”
On Norms and Agency: Conversations about Gender Equality with Women and Men in 20 Countries (2013, background): “…in forms of learning, in their aspirations, in their views on the value of education, and in teacher performance, among others.c For example, Hoff and Pandey (2006) look at how learned discrimination, in their study of Indian students of different castes, may affect performance on tests…”
Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System (2015, neutral): “This explanation is rejected by Hoff and Pandey (2006).”
Striving for balance in economics : towards a theory of the social determination of behavior (2016, positive): “In an experiment in India, when high- and low-caste boys played a game in which they received rewards for every maze they solved, there was no performance difference between the caste groups until caste identity was primed (Hoff and Pandey, 2006, 2014).”
Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: A research agenda (2007, background): “) Hoff and Pandey’s [41, 42] work on dalits in India suggests that lower-caste children perform cognitive tasks unrelated to their social position (such as completing a maze) less well when they are explicitly reminded of their inferior status, than when they are not.”