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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w9904 |
来源ID | Working 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 |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9904 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567529 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Austen-Smith,Roland G. Fryer. The Economics of 'Acting White'. 2003. |
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