Religion,ethnicity and cooperation: An experimental study |
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| Institution: | 1. Eötvös Loránd University – Department of Economics, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/a, 1117 Budapest, Hungary;2. Research fellow in the Momentum (LD-004/2010) Game Theory Research Group at the MTA KRTK, Hungary;3. Middlesex University London, Business School Hendon Campus, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT, UK;4. Research fellow at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy;5. Facultad de Ciencias Juridicas y de la Empresa, Universidad Catolica San Antonio, Campus de Los Jeronimos, s/n, Guadalupe Murcia, 30107, Spain;1. Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, and University of Cologne, Germany;2. University of Innsbruck, Austria |
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| Abstract: | We investigate how cross-cutting ethnic and religious identities as well as the strength of individual religiosity and fundamentalism affect individual cooperation. In a repeated prisoner’s dilemma experiment, information about subjects’ religious and ethnic identities was either revealed or concealed to examine the individual and joint effects of these influences on subject decisions. While subjects’ knowledge of others’ religious and ethnic difference has no net effect on their cooperativeness, the awareness of similarity increases it. Subject religiosity and fundamentalism have no independent effect on cooperation, but they enhance ethnic and religious intergroup effects. |
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| Keywords: | Religion Intergroup effects Prisoner’s dilemma Experiments |
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