Incentives to Identify: Racial Identity in the Age of Affirmative Action
研究发现，当州级平权行动政策被禁止后，面临激励的混血个体更少认同少数族裔身份，而面临抑制的混血个体则更多认同少数族裔身份，表明种族自我认同会响应经济激励。
We link data on racial self-identification with changes in state-level affirmative action policies to ask whether racial self-identification responds to economic incentives. We find that after a state bans affirmative action, multiracial individuals who face an incentive to identify under affirmative action are about 30 percent less likely to identify with their minority groups. In contrast, multiracial individuals who face a disincentive to identify under affirmative action are roughly 20 percent more likely to identify with their minority groups once affirmative action policies are banned.