Populism and identity politics

A Velasco - LSE Public Policy Review, 2020 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
Over one-third of humanity lives under populist regimes—and many of those regimes are
turning increasingly authoritarian. It is a worldwide challenge to liberal democracy. The …

The Role of Social Identity in a Population's Adoption of Prosocial Common-Pool Behavior

G Sotnik, S Choporov… - Journal of Artificial …, 2023 - research.manuscritpub.com
Prosocial common-pool behavior–subtractable and non-excludable behavior that benefits
others–is essential for the survival of any population of social individuals. The behavior …

The silent discrimination against headscarved professionals in the Turkish labor market: The case of women in the banking sector

H Karahan, N Tugsuz - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study addresses the widespread discriminatory policies against headscarved
professionals in the Turkish job market, by focusing on the female-intensive banking sector …

[HTML][HTML] Intergenerational assimilation of minorities: The role of the majority group

R Itoh, Y Sato, Y Zenou - European Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
We develop a dynamic model of assimilation of ethnic minorities that posits a trade-off
between higher productivity and wages and greater social distance from the culture of origin …

Bias in International Law

V Fikfak, D Peat, E van der Zee - German Law Journal, 2022 - cambridge.org
This special issue looks at how cognitive bias matters to international law. We wish to shed
light on the legal frames, labels, and cognitive biases that shape our understanding of …

Group identity and belief formation: a decomposition of political polarization

K Bauer, Y Chen, F Hett, M Kosfeld - 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
How does group identity affect belief formation? To address this question, we conduct a
series of online experiments with a representative sample of individuals in the US. Using the …

Is secessionism mostly about income or identity? A global analysis of 3,003 subnational regions

K Desmet, I Ortuño-Ortín, Ö Özak - 2022 - nber.org
This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds
mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in …

Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China

S Cai, KF Zimmermann - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has
neglected internal mobility as in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the …

Peer pressure and discrimination: evidence from international cricket

A Nilesh Fernando… - The Journal of Law …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study how peers affect in-group bias. Exploiting several umpiring reforms in international
cricket matches—where two umpires make independent decisions in each other's presence …

[HTML][HTML] The strategic use of social identity

T Lane - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024 - Elsevier
Individuals often have the power to manipulate which of their multiple dimensions of social
identity are salient when entering economic interactions. This paper represents the first …