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We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially … matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the … behavioral player is motivated by the social identity literature. For rational players, group membership has no payoff relevant …
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's willingness to finance a public good depends on their income and identity. Using high-resolution economic and linguistic data for …-based predictions with data on secessionist movements, state fragility, regional autonomy, and conflict, as well as with an application … to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Counterfactual analysis strongly suggests that identity trumps income in …
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's willingness to finance a public good depends on their income and identity. Using high-resolution economic and linguistic data for …-based predictions with data on secessionist movements, state fragility, regional autonomy, and conflict, as well as with an application … to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Counterfactual analysis strongly suggests that identity trumps income in …
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We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self …
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We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self …
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We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …. 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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construct identity and conflict which are simultaneously connected to strengthening and weakening internal and external impacts … conflicts, whilst complex conflict and challenges in conflict management are connected to weakening identity aspects. …Identity, in management sciences, comprises a newly popular research topic. This article assesses identity aspects …
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Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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