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Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan

Year: 2014

Type: report

Abstract: Identifying the role of intrinsic, ideological motivation in political behavior is confounded by agents' consequential aims and social concerns.We present results from two experiments that implement a methodology isolating Pakistani men's intrinsic motives for expressing anti-American ideology, in a context with clearly-specified financial costs, but minimal consequential or social considerations.Over one-quarter of subjects forgo around one-fifth of a day's wage to avoid anonymously checking a box indicating gratitude toward the U.S. government, thus revealing anti-Americanism.We find that ideological expression responds to financial and social incentives, and that measured ideology predicts membership in a major anti-American political party.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w20153

Authors: Leonardo Bursztyn, Michael Callen, Bruno Ferman, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Noam Yuchtman

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles

OpenAlex ID: W2284257293

Cites: 43

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10