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 …

'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 …

'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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to the putative terrorist, providing the microfoundations of dissident … group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …

, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of …

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex ante uncertain. While they eventually …