2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.11.028
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Religion, minority status, and trust: Evidence from a field experiment

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“…This may be because Muslims are a significant minority in India, which reinforces the importance of their religious identity. This is consistent with evidence from trust exper-iments ran in India and Bangladesh with Muslim and Hindu subjects (Gupta et al, 2013), as well as survey evidence (Tripathi and Srivastava, 1981).…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 87%
“…This may be because Muslims are a significant minority in India, which reinforces the importance of their religious identity. This is consistent with evidence from trust exper-iments ran in India and Bangladesh with Muslim and Hindu subjects (Gupta et al, 2013), as well as survey evidence (Tripathi and Srivastava, 1981).…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 87%
“…The significance of being a member of a dominant or subordinate group is revealed in previous research by Gupta et al (2013) carried out in Bangladesh and West Bengal. Their research found that in both locations the minority groups (Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in West Bengal) exhibit significant in-group bias with respect to trustworthiness and the majority groups exhibit out-group bias.…”
Section: Religion and Happinessmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…trust. The only study on trust we could identify was Gupta et al's (2013) comparative analysis of the behaviour of Muslims and Hindus in Bangladesh and West Bengal in India. In the latter, Hindus constitute the majority group and Muslims the minority; whilst in the former, the opposite is true.…”
Section: Religion and Wellbeing In Bangladeshmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Gupta et al . () also consider possible interactions between religious affiliation (Muslim vs. Hindu) and minority status in Bangladesh and India. They observe higher levels of trust within groups of the same religious identity for religious minorities, but not for religious majorities.…”
Section: Review Of Empirical Evidencementioning
confidence: 99%