This paper uses the unique social structure of Arab communities to examine the effect of social identity on voter … turnout. We first show that voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who shares their social group (signified by last … name) as compared to other candidates. Using last name as a measure of group affiliation, we find an inverted U …

Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences … measures social identity and its effects on preferences towards redistribution, social solidarity and redistributive … institutions. Empirical evidence indicates that social identity carries weight in explaining the presence of social preferences and …

Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits … social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that … to a public good. We speak of social interactions if the same subject at the same time makes group-specific contributions …

contributes to literature on the structural identification of production functions in two ways. As a first step, it reviews the … price, and the collinearity among input factors of production. Additionally, we propose an identification strategy that …

asset prices, and it exploits the heteroskedasticity for the identification of causality in a multifactor model. It finds a …

differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases between different identification strategies; and (c) differences … across identification strategies in their ability to make out-of-sample predictions. We conclude that discrepancies in past …

is whether such equations are identified. To check identification requires specifying the process for the forcing … is estimated by GMM, relying on statistical criteria to choose instruments. This may result in failure of identification …