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Political Identity and Foreign Aid Efficacy : Evidence from Pakistani Schools

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  • Nasim, Sanval

    (LUMS)

  • Stegmann, Andreas

    (University of Warwick)

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We conduct a field experiment to study whether concerns to preserve an anti-liberal self-image affect low cost, private school owners' willingness to explore a collaboration with a liberal Pakistani NGO. While explicitly revealing the NGO's liberal motivation to school owners has a significant impact on beliefs about the NGO's objectives, on average, we find only limited evidence that treated school owners are less willing to explore a collaboration with our partner NGO. However, heterogeneous treatment effects suggest that differences in political identity cause negative reactions among the minority of school owners expressing conservative beliefs during a seemingly unrelated follow-up survey.

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  • Nasim, Sanval & Stegmann, Andreas, 2022. "Political Identity and Foreign Aid Efficacy : Evidence from Pakistani Schools," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1415, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
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    Aid efficacy ; political identity JEL Classification: O20 ; P16 ; D03;
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