Economics and Identity*
将心理学和社会学中的身份认同概念纳入经济模型，分析身份如何影响经济行为，并应用于性别歧视、贫困与家庭分工，得出与传统分析不同的结论。
This paper considers how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes. We incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior. In the utility function we propose, identity is associated with different social categories and how people in these categories should behave. We then construct a simple game-theoretic model showing how identity can affect individual interactions. The paper adapts these models to gender discrimination in the workplace, the economics of poverty and social exclusion, and the household division of labor. In each case, the inclusion of identity substantively changes conclusions of previous economic analysis.