Incentives to identify: : Racial identity in the age of affirmative action

• Autores: Francisca Antman, Brian Duncan
• Localización: The Review of economics and statistics, ISSN 0034-6535, Vol. 97, Nº 3, 2015, págs. 710-713
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00527
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• Resumen

  • We link data on racial self-identification with changes in state-level affirmative action policies to ask whether racial self-identification responds to economic incentives. We find that after a state bans affirmative action, multiracial individuals who face an incentive to identify under affirmative action are about 30% less likely to identify with their minority group. In contrast, multiracial individuals who face a disincentive to identify under affirmative action are roughly 20% more likely to identify with their minority group once affirmative action policies are banned