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DOI10.3386/w9904
来源IDWorking Paper 9904
The Economics of 'Acting White'
David Austen-Smith; Roland G. Fryer
发表日期2003-08-18
出版年2003
语种英语
摘要This paper formalizes a sociological phenomenon entitled 'acting white'. The key idea is that individuals face a tension between signaling their type to the outside labor market and signaling their type to a peer group: signals that induce high wages can be signals that induce peer rejection. We prove three basic results: (1) there exists no equilibria in which all types of individuals adopt distinct educational investment levels; (2) when individuals are not too patient, all equilibria satisfying a standard refinement involve a binary partition of the type space in which all types accepted by the group pool on a common low education level and all types rejected by the group separate at distinctly higher levels of education with correspondingly higher wages; and (3) when individuals are very patient, there is an increase in the variation of education levels within the group and an increase in the variance of types deemed acceptable by the group. The more those involved discount the future, the more salient peer pressure becomes and the more homogenous groups become.
主题Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Labor Economics
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w9904
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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David Austen-Smith,Roland G. Fryer. The Economics of 'Acting White'. 2003.
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