Leader Identity and Coordination

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots‐Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi; Vecci, Joe

doi:10.1162/rest_a_01040

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“…These patterns are consistent with elevated prosociality acting as a driver for Bengalis and conformity acting as a driver for Santals. Our findings resonate with findings in Bhalotra et al (2023), who find that intergroup contact improves coordination in mixed groups.…”

Section: Discussion Of Potential Channelssupporting

confidence: 92%

Leveraging edutainment and social networks to foster interethnic harmony

Siddique,

Vlassopoulos,

Zenou

2024

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Interethnic tensions pose a significant barrier to the socioeconomic advancement of minority groups. This paper investigates the effectiveness of educational entertainment (or edutainment) in promoting interethnic harmony. We carried out a clusterrandomized field experiment involving over 3,300 households across 120 polyethnic villages in Bangladesh. We find that disseminating information through a documentary film designed to educate the ethnically dominant Bengalis about the ethnic minority Santals in polyethnic villages increased the ethnic majority's prosociality toward minorities. Using emotion-detecting software to analyze facial expressions during the film viewing reveals that empathy played a significant role in this process. On the other hand, we do not find any impacts on the prevalence of negative stereotypes and discriminatory opinions toward minorities. In addition, we find that targeting network-central people with the intervention generated large positive spillovers on others within villages, including Santals. We further corroborate these findings through village-level administrative data showing a reduction in police complaints in treatment villages. Five months after the intervention, we conducted a casual work field experiment involving 720 randomly selected participants from the main intervention. In this casual work task, pairs of ethnic majority and minority participants jointly produced paper bags for a local supplier un-

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Section: Discussion Of Potential Channelssupporting

confidence: 92%

Leveraging edutainment and social networks to foster interethnic harmony

Siddique,

Vlassopoulos,

Zenou

2024

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“…The politics and economics of Hindu-Muslim relationship is also of interest to social scientists (Bhalotra et al 2021;Mitra and Ray 2014;Nellis et al 2016). Indian Muslims, despite being a sizable minority (14% of population), are persistently under-represented in office at both the state and national levels.…”

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confidence: 99%

It’s All in the Name: A Character-Based Approach to Infer Religion

Chaturvedi¹,

Chaturvedi²

2023

Polit. Anal.

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Large-scale microdata on group identity are critical for studies on identity politics and violence but remain largely unavailable for developing countries. We use personal names to infer religion in South Asia—where religion is a salient social division, and yet, disaggregated data on it are scarce. Existing work predicts religion using a dictionary-based method and, therefore, cannot classify unseen names. We provide character-based machine-learning models that can classify unseen names too with high accuracy. Our models are also much faster and, hence, scalable to large datasets. We explain the classification decisions of one of our models using the layer-wise relevance propagation technique. The character patterns learned by the classifier are rooted in the linguistic origins of names. We apply these to infer the religion of electoral candidates using historical data on Indian elections and observe a trend of declining Muslim representation. Our approach can be used to detect identity groups across the world for whom the underlying names might have different linguistic roots.

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“…We provide some of the first evidence for religious identity 4 and the first attempt to study how more equal representation in a competitive electoral process can influence conflict. Some studies examine crimes against women or low-caste sections of society (Iyer et al 2012;Iyer and Triyana 2022;Girard 2021), exploiting the implementation of quotas, but quotas can affect outcomes through channels other than changing leader identity, such as by stimulating in-group bias (Bhalotra et al 2023) or backlash (see e.g., the review in Clots-Figueras and Iyer forthcoming).…”

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confidence: 99%