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

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbert Rademakers ◽  
André van Hoorn
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Stronge ◽  
Nikhil K. Sengupta ◽  
Fiona Kate Barlow ◽  
Danny Osborne ◽  
Carla A. Houkamau ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Ruixue Jia ◽  
Torsten Persson

Abstract This paper studies how material incentives and social norms shape ethnic identity choices in China. Provincial policies give material benefits to minorities, which consequently affect the ethnicity choices for children in ethnically mixed marriages. We formalize the ethnic identity choice in a simple framework, which highlights the interaction of (i) material benefits stemming from ethnic policies, (ii) identity costs associated with breaking the norm of following the father’s ethnicity, and (iii) social reputations altering the importance of identity costs. Consistent with the model, we find that ethnic policies increase the propensity to break the prevailing norm for mixed families with minority mothers. Moreover, the impact of ethnic policies is larger in localities where more such families follow the norm. More broadly, our study shows (1) how government policies can shape identity choices and (2) how one can allow for both complementarity and substitutability between individual and social motives in empirical analyses.


2005 ◽  
Vol 94 (0) ◽  
pp. 50b-50
Author(s):  
J Holm ◽  
M Gamborg ◽  
S Gammeltoft ◽  
L Ward ◽  
B Heitmann ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 94 (0) ◽  
pp. 53a-53
Author(s):  
J Holm ◽  
M Gamborg ◽  
S Gammeltoft ◽  
L Ward ◽  
B Heitmann ◽  
...  

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph H. Turner

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-398
Author(s):  
Kathryn J. Lindholm
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