The economics of identity: The origin and persistence of racial identity norms

By William Darity, Patrick L. Mason, J. Stewart. 2006

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A Tour de Force in Understanding Intergroup Inequality: An Introduction to Stratification Economics (2015, background): “…economics views group based identity as exogenously determined and, since Becker (1957), the practice of discriminatory preferences by one group toward another as simply a matter of arbitrary tastes (many of these distinctions are summarized by William Darity 2005 and Darity et al. 2006).”
From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages Among African-Americans (2007, unknown): “…United States (Rodriguez 1991 is representative).1 However, recent research is subverting the sharpness of this alleged conceptual divide (Keith and Herring 1991; Seltzer and Smith 1991; Falcon 1995; Twine 1998; Hill 2000; Darity, Hamilton and Dietrich 2002; and Darity, Mason, and Stewart 2006).”
Identity and in-group/out-group differentiation in work and giving behaviors: Experimental evidence (2009, background): “Darity et al. (2006) advance this theory by developing an evolutionary game model to show how racial identity may evolve in a society in which individuals are easily identified by racial criteria.”