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This article aims to establish how Muslim identities in Germany have been constructed by others and how they differ … from realities. Muslim communities have often been viewed with suspicion by majority ethnic groups in European nation … universal rights and gender equality and give political space to ethnic minorities. Mainstream portrayals of Muslim identities …
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This paper assesses the impact of the September 11th terrorist attacks and its after-effects on U.S. airline demand. Using monthly time-series data from 1986-2003, we find that September 11th resulted in both a negative transitory shock of over 30% and an ongoing negative demand shock amounting...
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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 …
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priming in incentivized experiments to study economic questions. We mainly focus on the role of social identity, culture, and …
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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 …
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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 …
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. 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 …
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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 …
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Since the early 1990s, the number of papers estimating econometric models and using other quantitative techniques to try to understand different aspects of the Chinese economy has mushroomed. A common feature of some of these studies is the use of neoclassical theory as the underpinning for the...
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composition of genetic traits across populations. The recent attempt by Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and …
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