National identity under economic integration

Chiang, Chun-Fang; Liu, Jin‐Tan; Wen, Tsai-Wei

doi:10.1007/s00148-018-0705-0

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“…Our novel evidence on the signal value that names chosen by parents (and, hence, presumably values inculcated by parents) have for offspring's behavior in a deadly conflict supports the notion that political identity matters in high-stake decisions and is thus relevant for the literature on political and ethnic identity (Bursztyn et al 2014; Rico and Jennings 2016). Since first names can carry a signal about nationalism, they can be used to study national and ethnic conflicts (Rivera 2008;Masella 2013;Novta 2016;Chiang et al 2019).…”

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Names and behavior in a war

Jurajda

Kovac

2020

J Popul Econ

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We implement a novel empirical strategy for measuring and studying a strong form of nationalism-the willingness to fight and die in a war for national independenceusing name choices corresponding to a previous war leader. Based on data on almost half a million soldiers, we first show that having been given a first name that is synonymous with the leader(s) of the Croatian state during World War II predicts volunteering for service in the 1991-1995 Croatian war of independence and dying during the conflict. Next, we use the universe of Croatian birth certificates and the information about nationalism conveyed by first names to suggests that in ex-Yugoslav Croatia, nationalism rose continuously starting in the 1970s and that its rise was curbed in areas where concentration camps were located during WWII. Our evidence on intergenerational transmission of nationalism is consistent with nationalist fathers purposefully reflecting the trade-off between within-family and society-wide transmission channels of political values. We also link the nationalist values we proxy using first name choices to right-wing voting behavior in 2015, 20 years after the war.

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Names and behavior in a war

Jurajda

Kovac

2020

J Popul Econ

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“…However, people may change groups over time, either by force (e.g., Bauer et al, 2014), because of social mobility (Suchon and Villeval, 2019), or because they select their group and the associated norms of behavior. The mechanisms behind the endogenous selection of the dominant group identity, notably through the selection of peers and reference group, have been so far insufficiently explored (e.g., Chiang et al, 2019;Shayo, 2019).…”

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Group identity and social preferences (by Yan Chen and Sherry X. Li)

Villeval¹

2021

The Art of Experimental Economics

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Beyond a summary of the paper, this review of "Group Identity and Social Preferences" by Yan Chen and Sherry X. Li highlights its exceptional impact on our understanding of group-contingent social preferences. This paper has made an important theoretical contribution by introducing group identity in the Charness and Rabin (2002)'s model of social preferences. The core of the contribution is to show experimentally that social identity influences distributional preferences, reciprocity and welfare-maximizing behavior. In particular, charity increases and envy decreases when people are matched with an in-group compared to an out-group, and people are more likely to reward and less likely to punish an ingroup than an out-group match. This paper has also contributed to the methodological debates about the use of minimal group identity in laboratory experiments. It has inspired many research programs on the role of group-contingent preferences in various dimensions of decision-making in society. It is also important to emphasize its policy implications regarding how groupcontingent social preferences could be activated to improve efficiency and the quality of social interactions in our segmented societies. This research agenda is more relevant than ever.I cannot visit a museum exhibiting paintings of Klee or Kandinsky without thinking immediately of Yan Chen and Sherry Li. Of course, the Klee-Kandinsky protocol used for inducing minimal group identity in the lab was introduced in 1971 by social psychologists, H. Tajfel, M. Billig, R. Bundy and C. Flament, decades before the publication of "Group Identity and Social Preferences" in the American Economic Review in 2009. But if my reference point on group identity is Yan and Sherry's paper, it is not because of an in-group bias in favor of economists! It is because their paper had a huge impact on any scholar interested in understanding the impact of group biases and social preferences on individual decision-making.

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“…15 Berry, 1997;Phinney et al, 2001. 16 Dustmann, 1996;Zimmermann, Zimmermann and Constant, 2007;Constant and Zimmermann, 2008;Zimmermann et al, 2008;Constant, Gataullina and Zimmermann, 2009;Casey and Dustmann, 2010;Manning and Roy, 2010;Georgiadis and Manning, 2013;Masella, 2013;Campbell, 2019;Chiang, Liu and Wen, 2019; Depetris-Chauvin et al, 2020. 17 Mason, 2004;Pendakur and Pendakur, 2005;Battu and Zenou, 2010;Bisin et al, 2011a. 18 Constant, Gataullina and Zimmermann, 2006;Constant and Zimmermann, 2009;Nekby and Rödin, 2010;Drydakis, 2013. 19 Schüller, 2015. affiliation with the minority group improves self-esteem by affirming heritage, or allows access to informal parenting support by signalling minority group commitment.…”

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Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Test Scores*

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We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and the test scores of ethnic minority children. We use standard survey measures of the strength of parental identity alongside validated cognitive test scores in a rich British cohort study. We show that children whose mothers report either an adoption or an active rejection of the majority identity tend to score lower in cognitive tests at age 7, compared with those children whose mothers report neutral feelings about the majority identity. We find no consistent differences *

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National identity under economic integration

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Names and behavior in a war

Names and behavior in a war

Group identity and social preferences (by Yan Chen and Sherry X. Li)

Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Test Scores*

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