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Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality

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  • William A. Darity Jr.

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This article provides an overview of the origins and development of stratification economics as a subfield that centers the importance of identity, social ranking, and relative group position. Stratification economics developed in response to explanations for interracial/ethnic/gender inequality that invoked group-based dysfunction on the part of the subordinate community. Influences, detailed here, include the works of W. E. B. DuBois, Thorstein Veblen, Karl Marx, Eric Williams, Herbert Blumer, Claude Steele, Cecilia Ridgeway, Thomas Pettigrew, and Linda Tropp. The article concludes with an exploration of unique insights and extensions stratification economics affords a variety of themes: the impact of multiple identities, the determinants of individual productivity, variation in intensity of group identification, "passing," sources of inter-group differences in wealth, and social mobility and immigration.

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  • William A. Darity Jr., 2022. "Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 60(2), pages 400-426, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:jeclit:v:60:y:2022:i:2:p:400-426
    DOI: 10.1257/jel.20211690
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    1. Luis Monroy‐Gómez‐Franco & Paloma Villagómez‐Ornelas, 2024. "Stratification economics in the land of persistent inequalities," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 83(1), pages 157-175, January.
    2. Ariel J. Binder & Caroline Walker & Jonathan Eggleston & Marta Murray-Close, 2022. "Race and Mobility in U.S. Marriage Markets: Quantifying the Role of Segregation," Working Papers 22-59, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    3. Paul Makdissi & Myra Yazbeck, 2023. "Measuring the contribution of stratification and social class at birth to inequality of opportunity," Working Papers 2303E Classification- I31, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.
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    5. Merve Burnazoglu & Stefan Kesting & Franklin Obeng-Odoom & Alyssa Schneebaum, 2022. "Introduction: Advancing Stratification Economics — methodological perspectives and policy applications," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 457-461, October.
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    9. J. Atsu Amegashie, 2024. "The Importance of Social Status in a Rent-Seeking Society," CESifo Working Paper Series 10894, CESifo.
    10. Luis Ángel Monroy-Gómez-Franco & Roberto Vélez Grajales & Gastón Yalonetzky, 2023. "Unequal Gradients: Sex, Skin Tone and Intergenerational Economic Mobility," Papers 2023_01, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias.
    11. Lindsay M., Tedds, 2022. "Igniting an Intersectional Shift in Public Policy Research (and Training): Canadian Public Policy Special Lecture," MPRA Paper 114619, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, Luis Angel, 2022. "Regional comparisons of intergenerational social mobility: the importance of positional mobility," SocArXiv zgfvk, Center for Open Science.
    13. Petach, Luke, 2024. "That Old Time Religion: Christianity and Black Economic Progress After Reconstruction," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1480, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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