10.5061/DRYAD.V66S5
Banerjee, Ritwik
Aarhus University
Datta Gupta, Nabanita
Aarhus University
Data from: Awareness programs and change in taste-based caste prejudice
Dryad
dataset
2016
2016-01-22T00:00:00Z
2016-01-22T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118546
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Becker's theory of taste-based discrimination predicts that relative
employment of the discriminated social group will improve if there is a
decrease in the level of prejudice for the marginally discriminating
employer. In this paper we experimentally test this prediction offered by
Garry Becker in his seminal work on taste based discrimination, in the
context of caste in India, with management students (potential employers
in the near future) as subjects. First, we measure caste prejudice and
show that awareness through a TV social program reduces implicit prejudice
against the lower caste and the reduction is sustained over time. Second,
we find that the treatment reduces the prejudice levels of those in the
left tail of the prejudice distribution - the group which can potentially
affect real outcomes as predicted by the theory. And finally, a larger
share of the treatment group subjects exhibit favorable opinion about
reservation in jobs for the lower caste.
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