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Social Roles
1 : Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix Marseille School of Economics
In this paper, I introduce a workable dynamic utility model on the interplay between economic actions and social roles. I model both how economic actions are embed- ded in social roles, and how social roles reciprocally feed back into preferences and affect economic outcomes. I highlight the role of retrospective thinking and slippery slope arguments in explaining the persistence of social roles and consider a set of policy interventions aimed at breaking social roles when they deteriorate economic outcomes.
