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Harming to Signal - Guilherme Lichand (University of Zurich)
DeFiPP Seminar
Catégorie :
conférence/cours/séminaire (spécialisé)
Date : 22/10/2019 16:00 - 22/10/2019 17:30
Lieu : Salle C. Joset
Organisateur(s) : Guilhem Cassan
Date : 22/10/2019 16:00 - 22/10/2019 17:30
Lieu : Salle C. Joset
Organisateur(s) : Guilhem Cassan
Abstract
Is following traditions at least partly driven by social image concerns? If so, could alternative signals crowd-out traditions'
contribution towards social image? Studying those questions is hard, as
traditions (and compliance with them) are not randomly assigned.
This
paper overcomes those challenges in the context of initiation rituals
and child marriage in Malawi by combining a randomized control trial
that exogenously varies the availability of strategies to signal
pro-sociality with a survey experiment that randomly varies the
adoption
of different signals. We find that subjects judge those who plan to
marry off their under-age daughters as more pro-social in villages where
child marriage prevalence is high. Alternative signals change
perceptions about how pro-social those who follow traditional
practices are,
and decrease favorable attitudes towards child marriage and sexual
initiation rituals by 20-30%.
Those findings illustrate a new mechanism behind the rapid change of
long-standing social norms, and showcase that social signaling
interventions can have
implications above and beyond the behaviors they target explicitly.
Contact :
Guilhem Cassan
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guilhem.cassan@unamur.be
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