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forthcoming in: Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark Loewenstein (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, University of Chicago Press, 2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16963

Can Awareness Reduce (and Reverse) Identity-Driven Bias in Judgement? Evidence from International Cricket

Subhasish M Chowdhury, Sarah Jewell, Carl Singleton

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 226, 106697.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16762

The Cost of Following Traditional Gender Norms: Evidence from a Paid Leave for Seriously Ill Children

Valentina Paredes, Francisca Perez, Francisco J. Pino, Patricia Olmedo Cortés

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16739

Ethnic Identity and Educational Outcomes

Teresa Randazzo, Matloob Piracha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16721

Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace

Julián Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16590

Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Edward Miguel

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16246

Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions

Luca Henkel, Christian Pugnaghi Zimpelmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16148

Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China

Mengbing Zhu, Yi Li, Chunbing Xing

published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102609.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16020

Identity, Communication, and Conflict: An Experiment

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Subhasish M Chowdhury, Ralitza Dimova, Hanna Fromell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15866

Border Apprehensions and Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Citizens in the United States

Simone Bertoli, Morgane Laouénan, Jérôme Valette

forthcoming in: Journal of Law and Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15861

American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (6), 2547 - 2585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15570

Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Ömer Özak

published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (668), 1261–1299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15280

The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities

Vitus Püttmann, Stephan L. Thomsen

revised version forthcoming as 'The Microfoundations of Academics’ Engagement with Society' in: Technovation, 2025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14962

Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14845

The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020

Nick Drydakis

published in: Julie. A. Gedro and Tonette. S. Rocco (eds), The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society, London: Routledge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14815

Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States

Francisca M. Antman

published in: Advancing Anti-racist Economic Research and Policy, Perspectives and Resources on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute, 2022.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14780

Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers

Catia Batista, Marcel Fafchamps, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (4), 857 - 888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14769

Religious Practice and Student Performance: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting

Erik Hornung, Guido Schwerdt, Maurizio Strazzeri

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 100-119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14715

When Face Masks Signal Social Identity: Explaining the Deep Face-Mask Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Erwin Wong, Jonathan Yeo, Qi Yu Chan

published in: PLoS One, 2021, 16(6), e0253195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14714

Ingroup Bias with Multiple Identities: The Case of Religion and Attitudes Towards Government Size

Daniel Sgroi, Jonathan Yeo, Shi Zhuo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14371

From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration

Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder, Marco Tabellini

Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 811–842

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14299

More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace

Joan Costa-Font, Luca Salmasi, Sarah Zaccagni

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2025, 58, 101512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14225

Gender Norms and Domestic Abuse: Evidence From Australia

Yinjunjie (Jacquelyn) Zhang, Robert Breunig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14219

The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply

Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 186, 113-134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14191

Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Jakub Grossmann, Štepán Jurajda, Felix Roesel

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2024, 68 (2), 751-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14123

Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang

revised version published as 'Social Assimilation and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 37 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14111

Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru

Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, Carolina Méndez Vargas

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1049–1091

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13964

Interregional Contact and National Identity

Manuel Bagues, Christopher Roth

published as 'Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 322–350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13913

Competitive Preferences among Asians in the U.S.

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13873

The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions with Incomplete Information

Fortuna Casoria, Ernesto Reuben, Christina Rott

published in: Management Science, 2022, 68, 6336-6345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783

Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy

Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13735

Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans

Nick Obradovich, Ömer Özak, Ignacio Martín, Edmond Awad, Manuel Cebrián, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet, Iyad Rahwan, Ángel Cuevas

published in: Journal of the Royal Society - Interface, 2022, 190, 1920220085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13630

Educational Gender Gaps

Shelly Lundberg

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2020, 87 (2), 416-439

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13624

Employee Identification and Wages: On the Economics of 'Affective Commitment'

Patrick Kampkötter, Lea Petters, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 608-626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13507

Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Gordon B. Dahl, Christina Felfe, Paul Frijters, Helmut Rainer

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2491 - 2528

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12751

Assimilation Patterns in Cities

Yasuhiro Sato, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103563.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12732

Workplace Positive Actions, Trans People's Self-Esteem and Human Resources' Evaluations

Vasiliki Bozani, Nick Drydakis, Katerina Sidiropoulou, Benjamin Harvey, Anna Paraskevopoulou

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (6), 809-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12630

Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants

Tobias Heidland, Philipp Wichardt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12615

Incentives to Identify: A Comment

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (4), 742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12589

Does It Pay to Bet on Your Favourite to Win? Evidence on Experienced Utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Experiment

Lajos Kossuth, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Donna Harris, Nick Chater

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 35-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12391

Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo, Peter Skogman Thoursie

forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12284

Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Maximilian Sprengholz, Anna Wieber, Elke Holst

published in: Socio-Economic Review (SER), 2020, 18 (3), 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12185

The Economics of Hypergamy

Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen R. Moen, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (1), 260-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12120

Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests

Julien Benistant, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 128-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12104

Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development

Stuart Campbell, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Gurleen Popli, Anita Ratcliffe

published as 'Parental identity and child test scores' in: Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41 (4), 851 - 881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12104

Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development

Stuart Campbell, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Gurleen Popli, Anita Ratcliffe

published as 'Parental identity and child test scores' in: Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41 (4), 851 - 881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12086

The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Rémi Suchon, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 430-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11876

More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity

Lucía Del Carpio, Maria Guadalupe

published in: Management Science, 2024, 68 (5), 3196–3218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11803

Leader Identity and Coordination

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer, Joseph Vecci

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 175–189.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11757

Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households

Natalia Zinovyeva, Maryna Tverdostup

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (4), 258–284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11694

Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11692

Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner

Anne Ardila Brenøe

published as 'Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1859 - 1896

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11596

Women Legislators and Economic Performance

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2024, 29, 151–214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11292

Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 53, 102746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10790

Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice

Maria Knoth Humlum, Anne Brink Nandrup, Nina Smith

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (2), 455–500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10682

Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(627), 793-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10672

Occupation and Gender

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10599

Discrimination as Favoritism: The Private Benefits and Social Costs of In-group Favoritism in an Experimental Labor Market

David L. Dickinson, David Masclet, Emmanuel Peterle

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 108, 220-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10569

Religious Pluralism and the Transmission of Religious Values through Education

Danny Cohen-Zada, Todd E. Elder

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10384

Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

Alison L. Booth, Eiji Yamamura

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (4), 581 - 593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10382

My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households

Anthony Lepinteur, Sarah Flèche, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101866

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10180

Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials

Mette Foged

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 87-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10062

Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 467-471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901

Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9792

Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee, Hugo Reis

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101778

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9767

Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9731

Identity Conflict with Cross-Border Spillovers

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2020, 31 (7), 786-809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9705

Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition

Dennis J. Snower, Steven J. Bosworth

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9701

Bread and Bullets

George A. Akerlof, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9533

Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden

Karin Hederos Eriksson, Anders Stenberg

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (3), 744 - 772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9497

The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice

Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 1043–1095

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9110

Saving Face and Group Identity

Tor Eriksson, Lei Mao, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8753

Incentives to Identify: Racial Identity in the Age of Affirmative Action

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(3), 710-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8571

Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie F. Constant

published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8571

Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie F. Constant

published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112

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