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

Ethnic Identity Development and Acculturation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Mexican-Heritage Youth in the Southwest United States

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022022109359689 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 410-427 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Masaki Matsunaga ◽

Michael L. Hecht ◽

Elvira Elek ◽

Khadidiatou Ndiaye

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ethnic Identity ◽

Identity Development ◽

Longitudinal Analysis ◽

Ethnic Identity Development ◽

Southwest United States ◽

Mexican Heritage

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Perceived discrimination predicts increased support for political rights and life satisfaction mediated by ethnic identity: A longitudinal analysis.

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology ◽

10.1037/cdp0000074 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 359-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Samantha Stronge ◽

Nikhil K. Sengupta ◽

Fiona Kate Barlow ◽

Danny Osborne ◽

Carla A. Houkamau ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Ethnic Identity ◽

Longitudinal Analysis ◽

Perceived Discrimination ◽

Political Rights

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Choosing Ethnicity: The Interplay Between Individual and Social Motives

Journal of the European Economic Association ◽

10.1093/jeea/jvaa026 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ruixue Jia ◽

Torsten Persson

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Social Norms ◽

Government Policies ◽

Social Motives ◽

Mixed Marriages ◽

Material Benefits ◽

Identity Choice ◽

The Impact ◽

Mixed Families ◽

Empirical Analyses

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.

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