The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard; Ruebeck, Christopher S.

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“…First, there is a direct effect related to the fact that the larger the proportion of minority people in the neighborhood, the larger the probability of finding a minority spouse in the common pool of potential partners. This effect is reflected in the first term q of (20). The second effect is illustrated by the second term (1 − q) 2 C(q)ν and indicates the impact of a change in q on the marginal incentives to marital segregation (i.e., the socialization effort τ ).…”

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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin¹,

Patacchini²,

Verdier³

et al. 2010

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 5234 October 2010 ABSTRACT Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration *We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by neighborhood integration, which weakens group loyalties and prejudices. On the contrary, under cultural distinction, ethnic minorities are more motivated in retaining their own distinctive cultural heritage the more integrated are the neighborhoods where they reside and work. Data on ethnic preferences and attitudes provided by the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities in the UK enables us to test the relative significance of these two identity processes. We find evidence consistent with intense ethnic and religious identity mostly formed as a cultural distinction mechanism. Consistently, we document that ethnic identities are more intense in mixed than in segregated neighborhoods.JEL Classification: A14, J15

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“…Furthermore, as several experimental and non-experimental studies have shown, group pressure -which does not exist in our experiment-can force individuals to align with others around identity because it is beneficial to them or because they are obliged to do so. 17 Unquestionably, the concept of identity should continue to play an explanatory role in economics and other social sciences given that there are clear cases in which this concept is the driving force behind individuals' decisions. Nonetheless, when descending to the level of personal identity, several contradictions arise that oblige us to be cautious when attributing identities to people and attempting to explain economic conduct in terms of these identities.…”

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Personal Identity in the Dictator Game

Aguiar¹,

Brañas–Garza

Espinosa

et al. 2007

SSRN Journal

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This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in decision making. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social identity poses, our proposal focuses on the concept of personal identity. A formal model to study how personal identity enters in individuals' utility function when facing a Dictator Game decision is then presented. Finally, this "identity-based" utility function is studied experimentally. The experiment allow us to study the main parameters of the model, suggesting that we should move with caution when attributing identities to individuals.

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“…Even a country as United States, in which there already was a legal definition of race -and, thus, supposed to have a more exogenous racial categorization -presents a significant degree of racial endogeneity 6 . In the U. S. prior to the Civil War, marked by racist rules, African descendents, especially mulattoes, could be "white" by behavior and reputation (Bodenhorn and Ruebeck 2003).…”

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Endogenous categorization and group inequality

Alexandre

2015

International Journal of Social Economics

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Abstract:The objective of this paper is to integrate economic and sociological elements in a model of human capital accumulation by phenotypically distinct individuals. Both kinds of elements are influenced by the degree of categorization endogeneity (CE), meant as the influence of endogenous elements (e.g., behavioral traits) in group categorization. If CE is high, members of dominated groups can pass as members of dominant groups by adopting the behavioral norm associated with that group. CE facilitates group equality by decreasing the ability to discriminate between members of dominant and dominated groups, but it weakens intra-group neighborhood effects. It is argued that, under sufficiently low levels of discrimination, CE widens the range of values of the neighborhood effects parameter for which group inequality is stable.

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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Cited by 49 publications

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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Personal Identity in the Dictator Game

Endogenous categorization and group inequality

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