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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 …
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norms that causes an increase in identity utility for the formerly unemployed. This is supportive of the idea that, by … including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the …
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Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an … individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results …
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factors (sex, race, parents’ education, etc...) and lifetime outcomes (e.g. financial status, occupational prestige, perceived … evidence based on the differential impacts of gender and race on the blackness of a name and its popularity that suggest that …
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Excessive preoccupation for self-image has been pointed out as an essential factor explaining food disorders. This paper draws upon Akerlof and Kranton (2000) to model how ’self-image’ and others’ appearances influence health related behaviours. We estimate the influence of ’peers’...
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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. …
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Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well]being...
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
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