Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …

compete for students that differ by race, household income, and academic qualification. Colleges maximize a quality index that … means than that of whites. In benchmark equilibrium, colleges may condition admission and tuition on race. In a … tuition policies are race blind. Colleges then use the informational content about race in income and academic score in …

effects are stronger intra-race and that some effects do not operate through peers' achievement. For instance, both males and …

in proportional election systems using data from Swedish local government elections. There are two notions of …

job creation effect of stimulus by 33 percent at the state level. We exploit ex-post close state-level elections to …