Городской экономический семинар ЕУСПб, ВШЭ СПб и ПОМИ продолжает работу онлайн. 3 декабря в 18:00 Лукас Балафутас (Loukas Balafoutas, University of Innsbruck) в докладе «Религиозные послания и экономическое поведение» («Religious messages and economic behavior») представит результаты экономического эксперимента, поведенного в мечетях Афганистана.
Аннотация: While a body of existing empirical work has examined the effects of religious primes on social and economic behavior, there is very little evidence on the effects of actual participation in religious rituals. We assess in an economic experiment the potential of religious messages to shape individual behavior. We work together with Imams in Afghanistan who deliver two different sermons: one on life after death, and one of neutral content. Our sample consists of practicing Muslims who were exposed to one of the two sermons after prayers and then participated in an economic experiment in mosques. The experiment consisted of a religious donation task, a charity donation task, and a time preference elicitation task. We find that the sermon on life after death leads to significantly stronger pro-sociality measured in terms of the amounts donated, as well as to decisions consistent with lower patience. We discuss possible extensions in the lab and in the field.
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