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Interregional contact and the formation of a shared identity
Bagues, Manuel F.; Roth, Christopher - 2022
We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions in early adulthood on preferences, beliefs … and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330061
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Interregional contact and the formation of a shared identity
Bagues, Manuel F.; Roth, Christopher - 2022
We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions in early adulthood on preferences, beliefs … and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163194
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Interregional contact and national identity
Bagues, Manuel F.; Roth, Christopher - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419313
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Interregional contact and national identity
Bagues, Manuel F.; Roth, Christopher - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419413
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Pride and prejudice : different responses to migrant information among different identity groups
Lu, Ming; Yu, Ziyang; Ji, Qingyi - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 84-96
, this study introduced psychological adjustment cost into a behavioral model for identity and individual attitude change …. The model predicts that changes in attitude are related to an individual’s initial identity, and the same information can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163679
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Seeds of distrust: Conflict in Uganda
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316943
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Restrictive Immigration Policies and Latino Immigrant Identity in the United States
Massey, Douglas; Sánchez, Magaly Sánchez R. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
The United States is presently characterized by rising anti-immigrant sentiment, repressive immigration enforcement, and the negative framing of Latinos as threatening and undesirable. As a result, social boundaries between immigrants and natives have hardened and boundary crossing has become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506984
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Veiling
Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
Veiling among Muslim women is modelled as a form of cultural resistance which inhibits the transmission of secular values.  Individuals care about opinions of their community members and use veiling to influence these options.  Our theory predicts that veiling is highest when individuals from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494399
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Toward An Economic Theory of Dysfunctional Identity
Fang, Hanming; Loury, Glenn C. - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2004
We advance a novel choice-theoretic model of "identity" based on the notions of categories and narratives. Identity is … conceived as a matter of "reflexive perception" -- how people understand themselves. Choosing an identity is equivalent to … common choice in this regard, they embrace a collective identity which is dysfunctional if it is Pareto dominated by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005593463
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Rituals: An economic interpretation
Coyne, Christopher J.; Mathers, Rachel L. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 78 (2011) 1, pp. 74-84
procedures, which have a symbolic element resulting in the inculcation or reinforcement of shared values and beliefs. The purpose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573029