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We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self …
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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 develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends …
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remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
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broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …
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We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...
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background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with …-reported identity, a mainstay of the survey literature, had no predictive power. This highlights the importance of identity but only …
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This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational …-selection patterns change. Analysis of those patterns suggests that identity considerations act as barriers to entering the technology … sector and that some high-cognitive skill women do not apply because of their high identity costs. …
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Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main … contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently … identity responds to state affirmative action policy, albeit with a different conclusion for multiracial blacks, and are now …
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psychology, and identity economics in a vignette-style experiment. We asked German respondents about their attitudes towards a …. When one aspect of identity is already acknowledged (expressing anxieties) it has less influence on actual behavior …
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