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  • Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence from Nielsen Ratings
    Aldrich, Eric; Arcidiacono, Peter; Vigdor, Jacob (Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005)
    Nielsen ratings for ABC's Monday Night Football are significantly higher when the game involves a black quarterback. In this paper, we consider competing explanations for this effect. First, quarterback race might proxy ...
  • Economics and Identity*
    Akerlof, George A.; Kranton, Rachel (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000)
    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 ...