Searching for Religious Discrimination among Anganwadi Workers in India: An Experimental Investigation

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Prakarsh Singh

No 10048, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the child caregivers. We also weigh-in on the usefulness of non-incentivized experiments in discrimination experiments.

Keywords: health; discrimination; artefactual field experiment; allocation game; India; religion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 D3 I1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2016-07
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Published - published as 'Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workers' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 362 - 382

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