Conflict in the Pool: A Field Experiment

Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: a field experiment in Rwanda.

Can the media reduce intergroup prejudice and conflict? Despite the high stakes of this question, understanding of the mass media's role in shaping prejudiced beliefs, norms, and behavior is limited. A yearlong field experiment in Rwanda tested the impact of a radio soap opera featuring messages about reducing intergroup prejudice, violence, and trauma in 2 fictional Rwandan communities. Compar...

Democratic Institutions and Collective Action Capacity: Results from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia

The relative importance of the species pool, productivity and disturbance in regulating grassland plant species richness: a field experiment

1. Ecologists have generally focused on how species interactions and available niches control species richness. However, the number of species in the regional species pool may also control richness. Moreover, the relative influence of the species pool and species interactions on plant richness may change along productivity and disturbance gradients. 2. We test the hypothesis that many species f...

An intergenerational common pool resource experiment

Many renewable resources are in intergenerational common pools, exploited by one generation after another. In our experiment, the stock available to each generation depends on the extent of exploitation by previous generations and on resource’s growth rate, which is either ‘‘slow’’ or ‘‘fast.’’ Subjects show altruistic restraint in exploitation, but not enough to achieve the social optimum. The...

Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Conflict: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India

We examine the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on behavior in Tullock contests. We report on a series of two-player Tullock contest experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and Muslim participants in rural West Bengal, India. Our treatments are the identity of the two players and the degree of religious fragmentation in the village where subjects res...