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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy

Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018

maintain their identity. This diversity must be institutionally supported rather than be undermined by standardization and …

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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007

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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Body image and food disorders: evidence from a sample of European women

Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia - 2008

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' image on the...

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Identity and entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009

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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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

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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The Truth-Telling of Truth-Seekers: Evidence from Online Experiments with Scientists

Drupp, Moritz A.; Khadjavi, Menusch; Voss, Rudi - 2024

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

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Identity-Driven Cooperation versus Competition

Snower, Dennis; Bosworth, Steven J. - 2016

This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in …

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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

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 …

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Do Inheritance Rules Affect Voter Turnout? Evidence from an Alpine Region

Bonoldi, Andrea; Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Mosler, Martin; … - 2020

We examine the relationship between inheritance rules and voter turnout. Inheritance rules are measured by entailed farms in South Tyrol: land properties whose inheritance is regulated by a law similar to the right of primogeniture. Using data for municipalities between 1998 and 2010, we show...

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