Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India: An experimental investigation

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Prakarsh Singh

No wp-2016-69, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

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: Discrimination in employment; Field experiments; Health; Religion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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