German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 1

24 May 2024, 15:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

146. Racial Peer Effects at Work: Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil

Katharina Fietz (GIGA | University of Göttingen)

24/05/2024, 15:00

Labor Economics

Parallel Session

We study the impact of working with same-race coworkers on individuals' retention at firms. Using administrative employer-employee data from Brazil, we exploit unexpected deaths of workers from different race groups as exogenous shocks to the peer group composition. We find that a decrease in the non-white share of coworkers leads to lower levels of retention among non-white workers but does...

192. Natural Disasters and Sharia Laws

Fabian Haas (Department of International Economic Policy, University of Freiburg)

24/05/2024, 15:30

Political Economy

Parallel Session

The paper studies the effect of natural disasters on the introduction of religious laws using a unique dataset on Sharia laws in the largest Muslim country – Indonesia. We find that districts in proximity to a natural disaster are 37 percent more likely to introduce Sharia law in the following year, and the effect persists over the following years. Testing for the mechanism, we use a longitude...

35. Teachers’ caste bias affects students’ mental health and aspirations in Bihar, India

Ritwik Banerjee (IIM Bangalore)

24/05/2024, 16:00

Education and Health

Parallel Session

Social identity-based prejudice has a debilitating effect on various life outcomes. While the social science literature primarily focuses on the economic and social consequences, the mental health effects of such biases are vastly under-studied. We investigate this question in the context of caste discrimination in Bihar, India, using a large-scale, detailed, representative survey of public...