Identity Economics

By George A. Akerlof, Rachel Kranton. 2010

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Why have the relative rates of women smoking grown so much in the last 100 years? How can the U.S. military do so well with a relatively flat pay scale? Standard economics hasn't a clue, but according to Berkeley economist George Akerlof and Duke economist Rachel Kranton, the answers lie in a new field called identity economics.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience (2014, background): “The bottom line of the story is that the daily experience eventually determined the long-run outcomes (Akerlof and Kranton, 2010).”
Girls get smart, boys get smug: Historical changes in gender differences in math, literacy, and academic social comparison and achievement (2017, background): “Indeed, Akerlof and Kranton (2010) have explored how assimilation processes operate within an educational context, although they have largely focused on race and social class.”
Formation and persistence of oppositional identities (2011, background): “To be more precise, Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2010) incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior.”
Preference Change in Competitive Political Environments (2016, background): “Large literatures on each of these identities, and many others, demonstrate that identification with these groups has a direct impact on political, economic, and social preferences (Akerlof & Kranton 2010, Kinder & Kam 2010, Monroe et al. 2000, Transue 2007).”
Gender in Language and Gender in Employment (2015, background): “The persistence of traditional views of gender roles has been a significant countervailing force for progress in important dimensions of women’s empowerment (Duflo, 2012; Akerlof & Kranton, 2010).”
Social Incentives in Organizations (2018, background): “Identity and Mission In an influential line of work, Akerlof and Kranton (2010) highlight the motivating power of identity and show how many commonly used management practices can be ascribed to the organization’s desire to make the employees belong and therefore care about the success of the…”
Ethnic Identity and Labor-Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Europe (2011, neutral): “Section 3 discusses the related literature 2 For definitions of ‘ethnic identity’ and overviews on this issue, see Akerlof and Kranton (2010). and provides some theoretical mechanisms explaining the relationship between employment and ethnic identity.”
Human Agency and Explanations of Criminal Desistance: Arguments for a Rational Choice Theory (2015, background): “In this paper, we agree with Akerlof and Kranton that productive rational choice models will be as far from homo economicus as it is from homo sociologicus.”
On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist (2019, background): “Identity defines who somebody is - their social category (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000, 2010) - by considering the influences exerted on them by social interaction.”
Understanding Unequal Gender Classification Accuracy from Face Images (2018, background): “Thus, the unequal accuracy observed in [4] likely arises not speciﬁcally because of the skin type, but other correlated features of identity [1].”
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT (2010, background): “…to these reports, we have collected data on the customer’s political party of registration, household donations to environmental organizations and household participation in renewable energy programs, and data on the characteristics of the local residential communities where the households live.”