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This paper uses the unique social structure of Arab communities to examine the effect of social identity on voter … by incorporating groups behavior. -- Voter turnout ; paradox of voting ; social identity ; local elections …
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The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities. White males occupy most high-profile positions in the largest U.S. corporations whereas African Americans, Hispanics, and women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles....
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lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter …
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When traditional measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, body mass, height, and weight are complements to standard income and wealth measures. A persistent question in welfare studies is the 19th century's 2nd and 3rd quarter's stature diminution, a pattern known as the...
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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 …
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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 …
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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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This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in …
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Using a representative survey of German university students, we confirm that proclaimed support for environment protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we find that the environmental policy stance of German...
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our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and worldview “memes” (narratives, cues, frames) that shift beliefs … identity politics and illustrate how they may reinforce each other.Furthermore, we show how adverse economic shocks may result … for the key model implications, including the impact of higher inequality on both identity and worldview politics. …
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