Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
Economics And Identity
Leonardo Bursztyn,
Michael Callen,
Bruno Ferman,
Saad Gulzar,
Ali Hasanain and
Noam Yuchtman
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, vol. 18, issue 5, 2532-2560
Abstract:
We identify Pakistani men’s willingness to pay to preserve their anti-American identity using two experiments imposing clearly specified financial costs on anti-American expression, with minimal consequential or social considerations. In two distinct studies, one-quarter to one-third of subjects forgo payments from the U.S. government worth around one-fifth of a day’s wage to avoid an identity-threatening choice: anonymously checking a box indicating gratitude toward the U.S. government. We find sensitivity to both payment size and anticipated social context: when subjects anticipate that rejection will be observable by others, rejection falls suggesting that, for some, social image can outweigh self-image.
Date: 2020
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