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Bhalotra, Sonia, Clots-Figueras, Irma, Iyer, Lakshmi and Vecci, Joseph (2023) Leader identity and coordination. Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (1). pp. 175-189. doi:10.1162/rest_a_01040 ISSN 0034-6535.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01040
Abstract
This paper examines policy effectiveness as a function of leader identity. We experimentally vary leader religious identity in a coordination game implemented in India, and focus upon citizen reactions to leader identity, controlling for leader actions. We find that minority leaders improve coordination, while majority leaders do not. Alternative treatment arms reveal that affirmative action for minorities reverses this result, while intergroup contact improves the effectiveness of leaders of both identities. We also find that minority leaders are less effective in towns with a history of intergroup conflict. Our results demonstrate that leader and policy effectiveness depend upon citizen reactions, conditioned by social identity and past conflict.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | |||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Leadership -- Social aspects -- India, Religion and politics -- India, Identity (Psychology), Affirmative action programs -- India, Intergroup relations -- India | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Review of Economics and Statistics | |||||||||
Publisher: | MIT Press | |||||||||
ISSN: | 0034-6535 | |||||||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 105 | |||||||||
Number: | 1 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 175-189 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_01040 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the author’s final version, and that the article has been accepted for publication in Review of Economics and Statistics | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 April 2021 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 May 2021 | |||||||||
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