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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

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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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 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 J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016

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

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Behavioral determinants of proclaimed support for environment protection policies

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016

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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Economic interests, worldviews and identities : theory and evidence on ideational politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - 2021

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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Hate Trumps love : the impact of political polarization on social preferences

Dimant, Eugen - 2021

Political polarization has ruptured the fabric of U.S. society. I quantify this phenomenon through the use of 5 pre-registered studies, comprising 15 behavioral experiments and a diverse set of over 8,600 participants. The focus of this paper is to examine various behavioral-, belief-, and...

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Does identity affect labor supply?

Oh, Suanna - 2021

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 … payments to avoid job offers that conflict with their caste identity, regardless of whether these decisions are made in private. …

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One nation, one language? : domestic language diversity, trade and welfare

Gurevich, Tamara; Herman, Peter; Toubal, Farid; Yotov, Yoto - 2021

Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language affects trade patterns and economic welfare. We find that linguistic similarity within a country accounts for about 10 percent of estimated "home bias", demonstrating the...

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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we ﬁnd that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

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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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