We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … identity, while treating the others as the control group. The results demonstrate that prisoners become more dishonest when we … render their criminal identity more salient in their minds. An additional placebo experiment with regular citizens shows that …

priming in incentivized experiments to study economic questions. We mainly focus on the role of social identity, culture, and …

We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially … behavioral player is motivated by the social identity literature. For rational players, group membership has no payoff relevant …

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 …

universal rights and gender equality and give political space to ethnic minorities. Mainstream portrayals of Muslim identities …

. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to …

evidence that the strategic nature of the game affects the strength of identity. We also show when the change in identity … experimental procedure we measure identity, as standard in the psychology literature, in order to assess the extent to which … action selected in the game as affecting the identity of the subject. We find that in the Mean Game, there is little …

asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …