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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because...

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The Hidden Benefits of Control : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Landry, Craig E. - 2011

An important dialogue between theorists and experimentalists over the past few decades has raised the study of the interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of study within this genre that has sparked interest and...

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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, we show that demand for the platinum card greatly … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status … goods. The final experiment shows that increasing self-esteem causally reduces demand for status goods. We infer that part …

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Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete

Dee, Thomas S. - 2021

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

Naidu, Suresh - 2012

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....

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Personality Psychology and Economics

Almlund, Mathilde - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

Borghans, Lex - 2011

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...

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Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other than Cognitive Ability : A Review of the Intervention Literature

Hill, Patrick L. - 2011

Research on the causes of delinquency has a long research history, often with an undue focus on how cognitive ability serves as the main predictor of delinquent activity. The current review examines interventions that focus on psychological factors other than cognitive ability, and discusses how...

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Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2010

A number of studies have found substantial correlations in risky behavior between siblings, raising the possibility that adolescents may directly influence the actions of their brothers or sisters. We assess the extent to which correlations in substance use and selling drugs are due to causal...

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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit : The Story of Economic Genius

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but...

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