I review evidence that individuals associate themselves—or identify—with groups in two
fundamental ways: ingroup bias and conformity to group norms. The evidence spans many …

Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper
proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and …

A growing body of research has found that student-teacher race match is associated with
higher test scores, teacher expectations, and teacher perceptions of students. This paper …

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about
strategies that minorities apply to minimize discrimination. In our trust game with 758 high …

This paper investigates whether international migration increases the religious schooling of
children in the home country. I find that migration by a household member from Bangladesh …

Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its
origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool …

While religions frequently preach preferential treatment of fellow believers, the magnitude
and economic implications of religiosity-based discrimination are largely unknown …

Recent evidence has established that non-cognitive skills are key determinants of education
and labor outcomes. However, little is known about the mechanisms producing these …

Examining roughly 6 million civil judgments in China during the period 2014--2018, we
document that gender disparities in litigation outcomes are present and prevalent and that …

In this article, I test for discrimination against the religiously observant in the Israeli rental
housing market. I perform a correspondence study where half of the requests have a …