Does Identity Affect Labour Supply?
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Does identity—-one’s concept of self—-influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up various one-day job offers, which differ in associations with specific castes. Workers are less willing to accept offers that are linked to castes other than their own, especially when those castes rank lower in the social hierarchy. Workers forego large payments to avoid job offers that conflict with their caste identity, even when these decisions are made in private.
Date:
1 December 2021, 12:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics and BRIQ)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Organisers:
Julien Labonne (Blavatnik School of Government),
Simon Quinn (Department of Economics, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
suzanne.george@economics.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5916333570574/WN_0ZHlqrkGQ6StiabkmbB_kA
Audience:
Members of University and CSAE only
Editors:
Suzanne George,
Fiona Morsia,
Annie Rose
