Publication type
Journal Article
Series Number
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Publication date
October 15, 2015
Summary:
Little is known about the behavior of Madrassa (Islamic religious seminaries) students, and how other groups in their communities interact with them. To investigate this, we use data from economic decision-making experiments embedded in a survey that we collected from students pursuing bachelors-equivalent degrees in Madrassas and other educational institutions of distinct religious tendencies and socioeconomic background in Pakistan. First, we do not find that Madrassa students are less trusting of others; in fact, they exhibit the highest level of other-regarding behavior, and expect others to be the most trustworthy. Second, there is a high level of trust among all groups. Third, within each institution group, we fail to find evidence of in-group bias or systematic out-group bias either in trust or tastes. Fourth, we find that students from certain backgrounds under-estimate the trustworthiness of Madrassa students.
Published in
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 118 , p.247 -267
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.03.020
ISSN
18791751
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Link
http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13505
Notes
Open Access article
Open Access funded by Economic and Social Research Council
Under a Creative Commons license
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