@article{783dc5f5136d420eb2fa66097fd4ff67,
title = "Don't judge a book by its cover: the role of intergroup contact in reducing prejudice in conflict settings",
abstract = "We study the potential for pleasant and cooperative contact to reduce prejudice between religious groups in India. We randomly assign Hindu and Muslim participants into groups, in which they interact over the course of a week-long vocational training program. A novel feature of our study is that all of the participants were women. We find that intergroup contact reduces the prejudice of both Hindu and Muslim participants toward members of the other religion one week after the training program concluded. While we find that most of the positive effect of intergroup contact on reducing prejudice dissipates after six months, effects on Hindu attitudes toward Muslims are persistent.",
keywords = "Attitude, Prejudice, Religion, Vocational training",
author = "Maiti, {Surya Nath} and Debayan Pakrashi and Sarani Saha and Russell Smyth",
note = "Funding Information: ☆ We thank Etienne Gangnon, Seth Green, Jun Gu, Pushkar Maitra, Ray Miller, Ingrid Nielsen, Abby Zhang, the anonymous reviewers and participants in seminars at Monash University and the University of Tasmania, the Asian Polmeth VIII/ASQPS IX Conference, the WEAI Virtual International Conference, the 12th Workshop on the Economics of Health and Wellbeing in Hepburn Springs, Australia and the 16th Australasian Development Economics Workshop for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. The usual disclaimer applies. We thank the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for funding this project. Ethical clearance for this project was received from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Ethical clearance committee, with IEC Communication No: IITK/IEC/20I6-17/14. This study is preregistered at the AEA RCT Registry (AEA pre-registration ID: AEARCTR-0006608). Funding Information: We thank Etienne Gangnon, Seth Green, Jun Gu, Pushkar Maitra, Ray Miller, Ingrid Nielsen, Abby Zhang, the anonymous reviewers and participants in seminars at Monash University and the University of Tasmania, the Asian Polmeth VIII/ASQPS IX Conference, the WEAI Virtual International Conference, the 12th Workshop on the Economics of Health and Wellbeing in Hepburn Springs, Australia and the 16th Australasian Development Economics Workshop for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. The usual disclaimer applies. We thank the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for funding this project. Ethical clearance for this project was received from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Ethical clearance committee, with IEC Communication No: IITK/IEC/20I6-17/14. This study is preregistered at the AEA RCT Registry (AEA pre-registration ID: AEARCTR-0006608). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022",
year = "2022",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.jebo.2022.08.030",
language = "English",
volume = "202",
pages = "533--548",
journal = "Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization",
issn = "0167-2681",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}