We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze … 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 …

including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the … retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to …

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 …

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. …

paradox, and also show how it may be avoided by introducing a commitment device. …

the role of long-run and short-run price stickiness under discretion and commitment in a straightforward and intuitive way … when a commitment to hold nominal rates at zero for an extended period is optimal. We then introduce government spending …