-faceted self-concept (identity) we conduct an experiment with foreign- and US-born Chinese immigrants at a large US public …

We study how individuals’ willingness to delegate choice is affected by heterogeneity in identity between the delegee … show experimentally that divergent identity also causes delegation aversion through purely intrinsic channels. More …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …

payments to avoid job offers that conflict with their caste identity, regardless of whether these decisions are made in private. …Does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on … the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up …

also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social-image motivates mainly the top-performing teams. Additional …

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 …