Data and Code for: Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Suanna Oh, Paris School of Economics

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Project Citation: 

Oh, Suanna. Data and Code for: Does Identity Affect Labor Supply? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-07-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E184161V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary How does identity 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 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.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources National Science Foundation (SES-1919139); The Center for Development Economics and Policy; The Program for Economic Research at Columbia University

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms caste; identity; labor supply; field experiment
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      C93 Field Experiments
      D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage India
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 9/2018 – 8/2019
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 9/2018 – 8/2019
Universe:  View help for Universe Male casual daily-wage laborers living in Odisha, India
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) experimental data; survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Data were collected via in-person surveys using paper instruments. The data was double entered using the Cylon software (https://github.com/cylondata/cylon), by two different data entry officers, to reduce errors.

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