Economics and Identity

By George A. Akerlof, Rachel Kranton. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling?: Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment (2010, background): “It may be, for instance, that in such committees male committee members’ identities are strengthened (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000).”
Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior (2008, positive): “The economics of identity has found strong theoretical interest recently, see Kuran (1998), Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and Bénabou and Tirole (2007), for instance.”
Different Things Make Different People Happy: Examining Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being by Gender and Parental Status (2011, background): “Hence, a gender identity, for example, ‘‘changes the ‘pay-offs’ from different actions’’ ( Akerlof and Kranton 2000: 717).”
Boys’ and girls’ educational choices in secondary education. The role of gender ideology (2016, background): “…theories (Fagot, Rodgers, and Leinbach 2000), adolescents internalise these gender role expectations in their gender ideology and conform to the behavioural prescriptions of their gender category because doing so confirms their identity (Akerlof and Kranton 2000; Sinclair and Carlsson 2013).”
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation Over a Century (2013, neutral): “1 1 1(Eitvi); � 0 ( 1 ) where 1 is an indicator function that takes the value one if she works and zero otherwise.”
When Identity Marketing Backfires: Consumer Agency in Identity Expression (2014, background): “Identity is a fundamental and powerful motivator of behavior (Akerlof and Kranton 2000; Oyserman 2009).”
Testing for altruism and social pressure in charitable giving. (2012, neutral): “Hence, we can write the decision problem of staying at home (conditional on receiving a notice) as maxh∈[0,1] hmax (s+ (m− c) ,−S) − (h− h0) /η2, leading to solution h∗ = max [min [h0 + ηmax (s+ (m− c) ,−S) , 1] , 0] .”
The Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust (2007, background): “…Andreoni, 1990); inequity Aversion (Fehr and Schmidt, 1999); preferences for fairness (Rabin, 1993), preferences for reciprocity (Falk and Fischbacher, 2006); regards for self-identity (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000), or combinations of intrinsic and reputational concerns (Benabou and Tirole, 2006).”
Bowling Alone: a review essay (2002, background): “In this sense, ethical behavior constitutes an integral part of one’s identity, as discussed in Akerlof and Kranton (2000).”
Irevisiting The Greed And Grievance Explanations For Violent Internal Conflict (2009, background): “An individual’s utility may be related to his identity, specifically the relative position of the group he identifies with in the social pecking order; see Akerlof and Kranton (2000).”
Effects of role models and gender on students’ entrepreneurial intentions (2014, background): “An individual’s decision to engage in a particular type of behaviour is often influenced by the opinions and actions of others, the way in which others demonstrate their identities and the example provided by others (Ajzen, 1991; Akerlof and Kranton, 2000; Bosma et al., 2012).”