Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (22) Arrow Down

Show Results For

Page 1 of 22 Results →
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

By: Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency... View Details
Keywords: Politician Identity; Infant Mortality; Primary Education; India; Muslim; Fairness; Religion; Government and Politics; India
Related
  • August 2014
  • Article

Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

By: Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Guilhem Cassan and Lakshmi Iyer
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression... View Details
Keywords: Politician Identity; Infant Mortality; Primary Education; India; Muslim; Fairness; Religion; Government and Politics; India
Related
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Religion, Politician Identity, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
  • Article

When Seeking Help, Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Benefit from Explicitly Stating Their Identity

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
Receiving help can make or break a career, but women and racial/ethnic minorities do not always receive the support they seek. Across two audit experiments—one with politicians and another with students—as well as an online experiment (total n = 5,145), we test whether... View Details
Keywords: Support; Marginalized Communities; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Identity; Race; Gender; Communication Intention and Meaning
Related
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Turnover in India (revised) Authors: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein
Following a contentious presidential race, Donald Trump’s 2016 election destabilized America’s status quo. Academics, journalists, politicians and the public at large examined why Trump had won. Many Americans, inside and outside the government, asserted that a... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Industry; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business And Government; Business And Public Policy; Business And Society; Media Businesses; Media Content; Media Slant; Media Regulation; Internet Of Everything; Government Policy; Politics; Political Campaigns; Political Strategy; Political Turmoil; Government; Government Regulation; Security; International Business; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; War; Social Media; Public Administration Industry; United States; Russia
Related
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections

By: Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences. In the median voter theorem, this outcome emerges as candidates strategically adjust their platform to get closer to their opponent. Despite its... View Details
Keywords: Political Ideology; Political Elections; United States; France
Related
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names. The difference persists whether the host is African-American or White, male or female. The difference also persists whether the host shares the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of government pushed hard for balanced budget amendments while View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

closet. Patric Cao (he/him/his), Class of 2023 Growing up in Arizona and being raised by Catholic, Vietnamese immigrants, I felt like I just couldn’t be gay. To me, there were other identities that I was supposed to juggle. In my mind,... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

to create social media, whose audiences voluntarily gave up their privacy. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Snapchat require you to sign in, making your identity known to the platform. Users’ interests can be inferred from the interests of their... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

Politician Identity, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract—This paper investigates whether the religious identity... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

you by stores, researchers, and credit agencies belongs to those companies, not to you. They in turn resell that information to others. So if our personal information is such an asset, shouldn't we benefit from our asset as well? Why shouldn't intelligent consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

power in the region. An explanation, rather, lies in nationalism: in the degree to which these countries constructed and embraced their own concepts of national identity and allowed such concepts to influence economic policy. As Abdelal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Mar 2012
  • Op-Ed

Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline

Protestant faith makes him seem less "other" to a non-Asian-American audience than his race, especially in the context of current public discourse about politicians who have Muslim names or Mormon faith? There are two plausible... View Details
Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

moment of crisis the delegates could have chosen either of two of the most accomplished politicians in America, William Henry Seward or Salmon P. Chase. Both had been United States senators and governors of major states. Both were... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

those who view immigrants as a threat to national identity and local culture. Cultural concerns are often amplified by the idea that immigrants are unwilling or unable to assimilate. But has anything happened to validate these concerns?... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • Web

2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Lumumba Seegars Lumumba Seegars is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior, a joint program with Harvard Business School and the Department of Psychology. He studies... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Business School Case 718-005 Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman