their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we … consequence of reducing their well-being, since identity-concerned parents will constrain their daughter's choices. The model can … self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …

associated with accepting refugees, (iv) the share of Muslim asylum-seekers, and (v) the share of war refugees. We find that … providing information about the fiscal costs associated with accepting refugees, and about the share of Muslim refugees … share of Muslim refugees are 18 percentage points more likely to call for abolishing the right of asylum when informed about …

both the identity and perceived quality of their mentors (seniors). A preference for homophily results in the persistence …

This paper examines how beliefs and preferences drive identity-conforming consumption or investments. We introduce a … theory that explains how identity distorts individuals' beliefs about potential outcomes and imposes psychic costs on … benefiting from identity-incongruent sources. We substantiate our theoretical foundation through two lab-infield experiments on …

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 …

-report winning tosses when their professional identity is salient. The global Experiment II yields heterogeneous effects. We …