Belief Systems and Durable Inequalities: An Experimental Investigation of Indian Caste

By K. Hoff, Priyanka Pandey. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Subjective relative income and lottery ticket purchases (2008, background): “In a study conducted with boys from different castes in India, Hoff and Pandey (2004) found that when the caste of each boy was announced, low caste boys performed worse on a pay-for-performance task.”
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy (2014, background): “A recent demonstration of this comes from India, where Hoff and Pandey (2004) gave village schoolchildren a set of simple puzzles to solve.”
Affirmative Action in India and the United States (2005, background): “Hoff and Pande (2004) provide experimental evidence that “a social identity – a product of history, culture and personal experience of discrimination – creates pronounced economic disadvantage for a group through its effect on individuals’ expectations”.”
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.”
Beyond fatalism: An empirical exploration of self-efficacy and aspirations failure in Ethiopia (2011, background): “For example, in the experiment of Hoff and Pandey (2004) in India, the test performance of lower caste children declined when their caste status was publicly revealed at the beginning of the test.”