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Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices
Autiero, Giuseppina; O'Higgins, Niall - 2013
This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328951
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333306
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Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification
Hunter, Boyd; Howlett, Monica; Biddle, Nicholas - 2014
Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or intensifies the emotional response to the object of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352282
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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Raschke, Christian - 2014
consistent with the model of Glaeser (2005) on hate, and with that of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005) on identity in the utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352302
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Occupation and Gender
Cortes, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2017
's occupational choices and the gender wage gap. Finally, we consider the role of gender identity and social norms in shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653400
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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2017
In many countries, ethnic minorities have a persistent disadvantageous socioeconomic position. We investigate whether aversion to competing against members of the ethnically dominant group could be a contributing factor to this predicament. We conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural...
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Women Legislators and Economic Performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
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More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
Del Carpio, Lucía; Guadalupe, Maria - 2018
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931841
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Identity and Racial Harassment
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Antecol, Heather - 2004
a multifaceted notion of racial identity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261898
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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267545