November 14, 2023
THE GIRLY MEN OF THE rIGHT:
HATE, FEAR AND INTERGROUP CONFLICT: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria (Miguel Ortiz, UC Berkeley, (Job Market Paper), November 1, 2023)
I deploy this protocol as a lab-in-the-field experiment in Jos, Nigeria, to study the region's ongoing conflict between Christians and Muslims. I find that fear explains 76% (and hate 24%) of the non-cooperative behavior I observe in a coordination game played between Christians and Muslims. Moreover, this fear is mostly unwarranted, as non-cooperators grossly exaggerate the percentage of hateful people in the outgroup.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 14, 2023 12:00 AM