How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption

Atkin, David; Colson-Sihra, Eve; Shayo, Moses

doi:10.3386/w25693

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“…Another relevant differential effect can be driven by the primary religion in the connection's country of residence. The typical religion creed not influences religiosity, but also a broad set of individual values and beliefs, from fertility norms to food consumption (Atkin et al, 2019). For this reason, we evaluate the differential effect of having a reliable connection in a Muslim-majority (Panel C) or Christian-majority country (Panel D) on the sample of connected individuals.…”

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Network-based Connectedness and the Diffusion of Cultural Traits

Turati

2020

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This paper empirically investigates the impact of network-based connectedness on the diffusion of cultural traits. Using Gallup World Poll data on 148 countries on individual connectedness, opinions and beliefs, we find that natives who have a connection abroad are associated with higher levels of social behavior, religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. Due to the endogenous nature of the variables, we strongly mitigate the threat of selection into connectedness by showing robust estimates even after controlling for broad measure of connectedness and performing propensity score and covariate matching techniques. Statistical tests are carefully implemented to quantify the selection threat of unobserved factors, which appears negligible. Our evidence shows that connectedness leads to cultural convergence across regions, while increases cultural heterogeneity within regions. Exploring the mechanisms by which these effects occur, we provide evidence that the effects are precisely estimated among less educated natives and that connectedness affects economic outcomes through remittances. We estimate differential cultural effects based on the connection's country of residence, suggesting a destination-specific transfer of norms. Overall, the effects on social behavior are sizeable at the global level, once simulations based on estimated coefficients are performed. Although robust and certainly not negligible, gender-egalitarian and pro-religiosity effects of connectedness are limited.

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Section: Differential Effects Based On Connection Locationmentioning

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Network-based Connectedness and the Diffusion of Cultural Traits

Turati

2020

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“…This paper studies individuals' possible choice to forgo their original or ancestral ethnic identity and adopt a specific new ethnicity. Ethnic group membership has long been considered an important basis for discrimination and is linked to systematic group differences in key socioeconomic outcomes such as employment, wages, education, health, and credit access, but also in residential area, occupation, romantic partner choice and food preferences (Alesina et al 2016;Atkin et al 2019;Bisin and Verdier 2000;Chiswick 1988;Giuliano and Ransom 2013;Goldsmith et al 2006;Hanna and Linden 2012;Hellerstein and Neumark 2008;Mays et al 2007;Petersen et al 2019;Rubinstein and Brenner 2013). Underlying the large literature on ethnic segregation and discrimination is the conceptualization of individuals' ethnicity as something unmalleable, a fixed personal trait that one inherits from one's parents and that is often marked by phenotypical characteristics such as skin tone or hair color (Brubaker 2006;Wimmer 2013).…”

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Choosing Your Ethnicity: A Longitudinal Analysis of Ethnic Identity Choice and Intra-Individual Ethnicity Change

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Hoorn²

2020

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This paper studies individuals' possible choice to forgo their ancestral ethnicity and adopt a specific new ethnicity. We first use individual-level panel data for Indonesia as well as other countries (e.g., the U.S.) to document the pervasiveness of intra-individual ethnicity change and its coincidence with major life events, particularly, interethnic marriage. Next, we focus on individuals who have intermarried and exploit variation in deep-rooted community-level norms on matrilocality (co-residence with the wife's family) to identify how differences in expected costs and benefits of ethnicity change causally affect newlyweds' choice to adopt a specific ethnicity (i.e., their spouses' ethnicity) or not. Results obtained using a three-wave panel comprising more than 13,000 Indonesians confirm the expected effect of matrilocality, as newly intermarried men (women) are significantly more (less) likely to adopt their spouses' ethnicity when the couple lives in a matrilocal community compared to a nonmatrilocal one. Because ethnicity change is a means to fit in, important implication of our findings is that in many countries key statistics on ethnic fractionalization and segregation are severely inflated. JEL classifications: J12, J15, Z13

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“…Dans beaucoup de pays, la viande est par exemple utilisée pour les systèmes d'échange et de dots, les rites de passage, les pratiques religieuses et les relations de pouvoir. Voir par exemple Franklin (1999) en sociologie, Burgat (2017) en philo-anthropologie etAtkin et al (2018) pour une étude récente en économie. 11 Pour une vision plus complète, voir par exemple l'expertise collective de l'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA 2017) et le rapport de Terra Nova (Terra Nova 2017).12 Cette évolution pose évidemment la question économique centrale (mais non discutée dans ce texte) de la répartition du surplus généré par ces avancées technologiques entre producteurs, distributeurs et consommateurs.…”

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Veganomics : vers une approche économique du véganisme ?

Treich¹

2019

Revue Française d'Économie

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A paraître dans la revue française d'économie Résumé : L'économie ne s'intéresse pas aux animaux. L'ambition de cet article est de stimuler des recherches en économie sur les animaux et le véganisme. Par véganisme, nous considérons tous les comportements visant à modifier (et pas seulement éliminer) l'utilisation ou la consommation d'animaux pour des raisons morales. Nous proposons une introduction sélective au sujet, centrée sur la consommation de viande et les conditions d'élevage des animaux. La viande se situe aujourd'hui à la croisée des chemins à cause de ses externalités sanitaires et environnementales, et de la montée du végétarisme dans les pays développés. L'économie du véganisme-ou veganomics-peut aider à mieux comprendre le comportement des consommateurs (omnivores, flexitariens, végétariens) et ses implications sur les stratégies des producteurs, des activistes et des décideurs publics, et ainsi mieux cerner un monde où la relation à l'animal peut profondément évoluer.

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How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption

Cited by 20 publications

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Network-based Connectedness and the Diffusion of Cultural Traits

Network-based Connectedness and the Diffusion of Cultural Traits

Choosing Your Ethnicity: A Longitudinal Analysis of Ethnic Identity Choice and Intra-Individual Ethnicity Change

Veganomics : vers une approche économique du véganisme ?

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