Religious fragmentation, social identity and other-regarding preferences: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2214-8043
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2019.101451