Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215091 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8089
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to homogeneous-caste or mixed-caste teams, and adversarial contact, through random assignment of opponents. Collaborative contact increases cross-caste friendships and efficiency in trade, and reduces own-caste favoritism. In contrast, adversarial contact generally reduces cross-caste interaction and efficiency. League participation reduces intergroup differences, suggesting that the positive aspects of intergroup contact more than offset the negative aspects in this setting.
Subjects: 
contact hypothesis
caste
social interactions
India
field experiment
JEL: 
C93
D90
D91
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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