| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25693 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25693 |
| How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption | |
| David Atkin; Eve Colson-Sihra; Moses Shayo | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-04-01 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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 religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of identity goods (e.g. beef and pork) responds to forces suggested by social-identity research: group status and group salience, with the latter proxied by inter-group conflict. Moreover, identity choices respond to the cost of following the group’s prescribed behaviors. We propose and estimate a modified demand system to quantify the identity changes that followed India’s 1991 economic reforms. Notably, our estimated identity changes correlate with changes in vote shares for ethnic and religious parties. While social-identity research has focused on status and salience, our results suggest that economic costs also play an important role. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Behavioral Economics ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25693 |
| 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/583367 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Atkin,Eve Colson-Sihra,Moses Shayo. How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption. 2019. |
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