Religious Homophily in a Secular Country: Evidence From a Voting Game in France

Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie‐Anne

doi:10.1111/ecin.12192

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“…Adida, Laitin, and Valfort (2010) followed this notion and demonstrated that discrimination in the French labor market is actually driven by religion and not ethnicity. The authors confirm the results in an experimental game, which demonstrated that religious similarity is the only significant predictor of homophily, while none of the other predictors (be it gender, age, education, ethnicity, or socioeconomic similarity) had similar predictive power (Adida, Laitin, and Valfort 2015). Choi, Poertner, and Sambanis (2019) conducted a field experiment in Germany measuring assistance provided to immigrants during daily social interactions and could not find any ethnically driven racism or discrimination.…”

Section: Disentangling the Effects Of Ethnic And Religious Minority Endorserssupporting

confidence: 54%

Explaining Consumer Responses to Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Advertising: The Case of Israel and Germany

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Gvili

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2021

Journal of Advertising

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With global geopolitical changes, marketers have increasingly employed advertisements featuring ethnic and religious minority endorsers. Researchers have examined the effects of this practice, where endorsers' ethnicity and religious associations are interlinked. The present research disentangles the potential effects of these two factors and tests their underlying mechanism. Study 1 (N ¼ 336) shows that the endorser's belongingness to a religious minority group negatively affects attitudinal and behavioral consumer responses. Furthermore, the results indicate that sociomoral disgust mediates the effects of religion on consumer responses. Study 2 (N ¼ 306) supports a moderated mediation model where religious and ethnic identity moderates the indirect effect of ads featuring a religious minority endorser. Additionally, weaker effects for consumers' ethnic identity moderating the indirect effect of ads featuring ethnic minority endorsers were found. The results indicate a strong category dominance of religion for the evaluation of ethnic and religious minority endorsers. The findings theoretically contribute to our understanding of the diverse effects of featuring religious and ethnic minority endorsers in advertisements. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

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Section: Disentangling the Effects Of Ethnic And Religious Minority Endorserssupporting

confidence: 54%

Explaining Consumer Responses to Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Advertising: The Case of Israel and Germany

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Gvili

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2021

Journal of Advertising

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“…Similar to studies of co-ethnicity and co-partisanship, some research shows that individuals express preferences for co-religionists. In an experimental game, Adida, Laitin, and Valfort (2015) find that participants choose leaders with whom they share a religious background. This is not because of increased trust in the leader or a belief they will receive increased material benefits.…”

Section: Foreign Aid Public Opinion and Religionmentioning

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Religion and Foreign Aid

Blackman

2018

Politics and Religion

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Foreign aid allocations represent one of several important economic policy tools used by governments to realize their foreign policy objectives. Using a conjoint survey of respondents in the United States, this paper shows that recipient country religion is a significant determinant of individual-level foreign aid preferences. In particular, respondents express a preference for giving to Christian-majority countries in contrast to Muslim- or Buddhist-majority countries. This effect is comparable with that of other important determinants of support for foreign aid, such as a country's status as a U.S. ally or trade partner. Importantly, the preference for Christian recipient countries is especially pronounced among Christian, and most notably Evangelical Christian, respondents. This paper explores two potential mechanisms for the effect of religion: country religion as a heuristic and an individual-level preference for giving to co-religionists.

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“…Fong and Luttmer (2009) find that African American subjects-and white subjects who reported themselves to feel close to their own racial group-were likely to send more to Hurricane Katrina victims in experimental manipulations that increase the perception that victims are of their own race (black, white respectively). Adida, Laitin and Valfort (2015) find that subjects in a laboratory experiment in France who have information about the religion of fellow participants vote for group leaders-empowered to distribute experiment payoffs-of the same religion, although religion ends up not being a significant factor in the leaders' choices once selected. Meer (2011) finds that alumni are more likely to donate to their former universities and that they donate more when they are solicited by same-race individuals.…”

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Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending

Chen

Foster

Putterman

2019

European Economic Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.Abstract. We construct a dedicated web interface and use it to conduct a laboratory experiment to study willingness to lend and preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related factors such as ethnicity and gender. By looking at both channels together we are able to assess the extent to which identity-related differences in lending can be attributed to differences in how transaction-related factors are perceived among people with similar and different identities. We find that (1) both financial return and philanthropic motivation affect the amount lent, with little evidence that the former crowds out the latter; (2) lenders have a statistically significant preference for borrowers with whom they share gender and ethnic similarity even after controlling for perceived riskiness, neediness, and other factors including physical attractiveness and weight; and (3) lenders are willing to trade greater risk in order to help more needy borrowers, but at a rate sensitive to their own degree of financial exposure.

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Religious Homophily in a Secular Country: Evidence From a Voting Game in France

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

Explaining Consumer Responses to Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Advertising: The Case of Israel and Germany

Explaining Consumer Responses to Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Advertising: The Case of Israel and Germany

Religion and Foreign Aid

Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending

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