Publication type
Research Paper
Series Number
1350
Series
Warwick Economics Research Papers
Authors
Publication date
April 15, 2021
Summary:
This paper examines policy effectiveness as a function of leader identity. We experimentally vary leader religious identity in a coordination game implemented in India, and focus upon citizen reactions to leader identity, controlling for leader actions. We find that minority leaders improve coordination, while majority leaders do not. Alternative treatment arms reveal that affirmative action for minorities reverses this result, while intergroup contact improves the effectiveness of leaders of both identities. We also find that minority leaders are less effective in towns with a history of intergroup conflict. Our results demonstrate that leader and policy effectiveness depend upon citizen reactions, conditioned by social identity and past conflict.
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Link
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/workingpapers/2021/twerp_1350_-_bhalotra.pdf
Notes
Published as: Bhalotra, S., Clots-Figueras, I., Iyer, L., and Vecci, J. (2023) 'Leader identity and coordination', Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(1):175-189. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01040
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