Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Jonathan  Norris
Author-Name-First: Jonathan 
Author-Name-Last: Norris
Author-Email: jonathan.norria@strath.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics
Title: Identify economics:  social influence and skill development
Abstract: Within the economic literature, studies in identity economics, peer effects, and skill development have all suggested that social influences have an important role in determining choices. In this review, I draw on lessons learned from the identity economics literature to examine implications from the peer effects and skill development literature. I focus on the role of social identity in generating social group effects from peers and what role identity may have in shaping the development of skills from broader environments, parents and peers during childhood and adolescence.
Length: 35 pages
Creation-Date: 2019-07
Revision-Date: 
Publication-Status: Published
File-URL: https://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/departmentsubject/economics/research/researchdiscussionpapers/19-08.pdf.pagespeed.ce.e1GgQ7GViT.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 1908
Classification-JEL: I3, J0
Keywords: identify economics, skill development, peer effects, parental skill investments
Handle: RePEc:str:wpaper:1908