| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w9962 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 9962 |
| The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race | |
| Howard Bodenhorn; Christopher S. Ruebeck | |
| 发表日期 | 2003-09-08 |
| 出版年 | 2003 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African-American population in the mid-nineteenth century to investigate the costs and benefits of adopting alternative racial identities. We model the choice as an extensive-form game, where whites choose to accept or reject a separate mulatto identity and mixed race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary gains, but imposes psychic costs. Our empirical results imply that race is contextual and that there was a large pecuniary benefit to adopting a mixed-race identity. |
| 主题 | History ; Labor and Health History ; Labor Economics ; Labor Discrimination |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9962 |
| 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/567587 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Howard Bodenhorn,Christopher S. Ruebeck. The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race. 2003. |
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