Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan

Leonardo Bursztyn, Mike Callen, Bruno Ferman, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain and Noam Yuchtman

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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.

JEL-codes: C90 D00 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2020-10-01
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Published in Journal of the European Economic Association, 1, October, 2020, 18(5), pp. 2532 – 2560. ISSN: 1542-4774

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