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We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …
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income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second …
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When a society overthrows a ruler – call the ruler Caesar – what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value...
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choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000), we consider a model of career choice and identity where … individuals derive non-pecuniary identity payoffs. Using factor analysis on a range of attitude questions, we find two factors … related to identity (career orientation and social orientation), which are important for educational choices. The implication …
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We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...
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unification of the three sociobehavioral forces with identity and with happiness. …
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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 …
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consistent with the model of Glaeser (2005) on hate, and with that of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005) on identity in the utility …
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This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends …
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remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
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