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Identity as Self-Image

Roland Bénabou, Luca Henkel
www.nber.org Summary & key facts 2025 2 citations

This paper is a review of economic research that treats identity as a set of beliefs about one’s core traits, values, goals, and social ties. It explains the main cognitive ideas behind self-image concerns and then summarizes many lab, online, and field experiments that show how those concerns change how…

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