Ethnicity, information and cooperation: Evidence from a group-based nutrition intervention.

ABSTRACT: Development programs often rely on locally hired agents for service delivery, especially for interventions promoting agricultural practices, health, and nutrition. These agents are key to reaching underserved communities, especially women, with information and services around recommended practices. However, where societies are socially stratified, differences in ethnic identities between agents and beneficiaries may impact the effectiveness of information and service delivery and the uptake of recommended behaviors. We explore the salience of shared ethnic identity between agents and beneficiaries in promoting collective action using a field experiment with women's self-help groups (SHGs) in India. We cross-randomize an information treatment and a group-agent shared ethnicity treatment at

SUBMITTER: Raghunathan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10679797 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature