Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system
Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.011
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Ren, Yufei
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作者：
Afridi, Farzana;Li, Sherry Xin;Ren, Yufei
本文通过一项实验研究，探讨了社会认同对激励条件下个体绩效的影响。我们关注的是中国的户籍制度，在资源分配上，它有利于城市居民，歧视农村居民。我们的研究结果表明，使个人的户口身份显着降低了农民工学生的表现，相对于他们的本地城市同行，在一个激励性的认知任务，从而显着降低他们的相对排名下的收入分配计件工资制度。然而，在锦标赛制度下，户口身份显著性的影响并不显著，这表明当引入竞争时，它对农民工学生成绩的负面影响可能会被减轻。结果表明，制度强加的社会身份对个人的经济表现的影响，并可能对不平等。(C)2014爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' performance under incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system, which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our results show that making individuals' hukou identity salient significantly reduces the performance of rural migrant students, relative to their local urban counterparts, on an incentivized cognitive task, and consequently significantly lowers their relative ranking in the earnings distribution under the piece rate regime. However, the impact of hukou identity salience is insignificant in the tournament regime, suggesting that its negative effect on migrant students' performance may be mitigated when competition is introduced. The results demonstrate the impact of institutionally imposed social identity on individuals' economic performance, and potentially on inequality. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.