This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …

cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the … identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed’s feeling of identity is …

This paper employs social identity and self-categorization theories as a useful heuristic framework through which to …’s identity rather than reducing the instantaneous utility derived from day-to-day experiences. …

Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences … measures social identity and its effects on preferences towards redistribution, social solidarity and redistributive … institutions. Empirical evidence indicates that social identity carries weight in explaining the presence of social preferences and …