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- Identity economics is a recent advance that brings models of economic behaviour closer to the behaviour of human beings. In the classic model, people have individual, idiosyncratic tastes for these goods and services. This is the stick figure, ‘Homo Economicus’, of a rational and optimizing human being that populates most economic models.
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Sep 4, 2020 · Identity economics captures the idea that personal identity of an individual – an economic agent – is important for explaining individual economic behaviour. Personal identity greatly influences people’s decisions, including their economic decisions.
- Ivana Anton Mlinar, Ricardo F. Crespo
- 2021
Identity economics captures the idea that people make economic choices based on both monetary incentives and their identity: holding monetary incentives constant, people avoid actions that conflict with their concept of self.
May 1, 2024 · I study the impact identity change (assimilation) has on economic mobility. I experimentally assign people to different group identities, majority or minority, before they interact in a social coordination setting.
Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People’s notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save.
Jan 21, 2010 · Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions—at work, at school, and at home. With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures—and much, much more.
identity can be brought into economic analysis, allowing a new view of many economic problems.1 We incorporate identity into a general model of behavior and then demonstrate how identity influences economic outcomes. Specifically, we consider gender discrimination in the labor mar-ket, the household division of labor, and the economics of social
Mar 5, 2012 · Identity economics incorporates social identity and norms into economic theory, and the observed relation between social preferences and identity also drives our proposed research agenda in identity neuroeconomics. Take the examples of ‘fairness’ and ‘inequity aversion’.
