Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration
By M. Lowe. The American Economic Review, 2021
112 citations recorded by the source corpus.
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. (JEL C93, D83, D91, J15, O15, Z13, Z21)
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fcea8c949ca41b24c507ab1531a056823e40034a
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
- Salma Mousa
- A. Siegel
- Ala’ Alrababa’h
- William Marble
Citations in the corpus
- Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams* (2018, unknown): “In addition, studies have looked at what happens when whites serve with black jurors in criminal trials (Anwar, Bayer, and Hjalmarsson, 2012), athletes are mixed with different castes and religions on sports teams (Lowe, 2020; Mousa, 2020), students are exposed to classmates with different religions”
- Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India (2018, unknown): “For example, reserving seats for female politicians has helped curtail negative stereotypes about women as leaders in India (Beaman et al.”
- Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes (2019, background): “Experimental evidence from myriad contexts and countries establishes the effectiveness of positive contact in improving intergroup relations (Barnhardt 2009; Burns, Corno, and La Ferrara 2015; Carrell, Hoekstra, and West 2015; Lowe 2017; Rao 2019).”