We experimentally investigate in village India how belief systems that hierarchize social groups affect the groups’ responses to economic opportunities. Earlier we found that making caste salient hurt low caste performance both absolutely and relative to the high caste’s. To examine the possible role of mistrust, we manipulate the scope for discretion in rewarding performance. When offered a ga...

OVERVIEW OF CANADA c anada is a sparsely populated northern landmass of approximately 10 million km. Created in 1867 after French and then British colonization, the Canadian federation currently consists of 10 provinces and two territories. Provincial populations in 1991 (table 3-1) make apparent the rather imbalance distribution of Canadians across the country (119). Compounding this imbalance...

History's nasty habit of repeating past tragedies in the form of a modernized farce threatens to confirm itself in the destiny of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS). This knowingly shaky and hurriedly tailored formation appeared on the ruins of the old Soviet Union in December of 1991 due to the efforts of three leaders of former Soviet republics--the presidenta of Russia and Ukraine...

This study explores whether a student user is more likely to believe the results obtained from an online system than from a manual system. Findings indicate that, overall, they are equally likely to believe either system. However, students’ familiarity with the title searched made a difference. Students who had heard of a book but found no record for it were more likely to distrust the computer...