Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
| Autor: | Leonardo Bursztyn, Ali Hasanain, Bruno Ferman, Noam Yuchtman, Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Government
HG Finance Public economics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Wage Social environment Identity (social science) Payment JA Political science (General) 0506 political science Politics Willingness to pay 0502 economics and business Gratitude 050602 political science & public administration Economics 050207 economics General Economics Econometrics and Finance media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the European Economic Association. 18:2532-2560 |
| ISSN: | 1542-4774 1542-4766 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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