The issue of one's identity has loomed large recently and has unfortunately been used more
and more as a wedge to separate subgroups. It is important to understand the ramifications …

This chapter surveys the literature of the past 20 years on group identity and intergroup bias
which serve as important underpinnings for labor market discrimination. Main economic …

We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on
individuals' performance under incentives. We focus on China's household registration …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

Ample evidence shows that certain words or ways of phrasing things can cause us to
change our preferences. We demonstrate one mechanism for why this happens-“framing” …

Many instances of social interaction display either or both of the following well-documented
phenomena. People tend to interact with similar others (homophily). They also tend to treat …

We experimentally investigate the effects of real and minimal identities on group conflict. In
turn we provide a direct empirical test of the hypotheses coined by Amartya Sen that the …

Inequality not only generates status differentials between rich and poor individuals, it also
generates status differentials between groups of different composition and income level. We …

In this paper we analyze how image utility can lead to misreporting of private information in
contexts where truthful reports maximize monetary outcomes. In a controlled experiment …

As an important mechanism designed to counteract temptation and promote cooperation,
reputation is widely investigated in the spatial Prisoners' dilemma game. Existing research …