Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
January 15, 2023
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 on citizen reactions to leader identity, controlling for leader actions. We find that minority leaders improve coordination, and 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 on citizen reactions, conditioned by social identity and past conflict.
Published in
Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 105 , p.175 -189
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01040
ISSN
346535
Subjects
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