income taxation privacy reduces welfare losses and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second best policy. …

We survey the recent literature on the role of information in mechanism design. First, we discuss an emerging … literature on the role of endogenous payoff and strategic information for the design and the efficiency of the mechanism. We … order beliefs becomes a natural desideratum. We discuss recent approaches to robust mechanism design and robust …

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

the same type of agents might be weak even if the within-type link cost is very low; (ii) oppositional identity patterns …

We first develop a model of identity formation resulting from the interaction of cultural transmission and … socialization inside the family, peer effects and social interactions, and identity choice. We then put the model to data using the … UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities. We show that the main determinants of ethnic identity include past racial …

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct … cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by neighborhood integration, which weakens group loyalties and prejudices. On … identity processes. We find evidence consistent with intense ethnic and religious identity mostly formed as a cultural …

, attitudes and preferences. Using surveys of individual values in 76 countries, we find that ethnic identity is a significant …

levels of trust, a stronger sense of ethnic identity and a weaker sense of national identity. …