The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Title of the Article

1. Difficult Concepts (What concepts did you find difficult to understand?)

i. _Utility Function______________
ii. _Pecuniary externalities______
iii. _Red identity________________

2. Insights (What new insights or learning did you gain in discussion/ activity?)

i. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that

_behavior makes the identity of a person___________________________________
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However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize
_it was the opposite and that identity greatly influences the behavior of a
person. This articled discusses that people have identity-related payoffs from
their own actions and demonstrates that people have identity-related payoffs
from their own actions_____________________________________________________.

ii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that

_A woman can do the same job of a man with equal productivity___________
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However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize
_There are productivity losses in a firm when a job is not given to a specific
gender. The firm avoids this by creating a ‘‘woman’s job’’ alongside the
‘‘man’s job,’’ rather than render the whole task gender neutral______________
__________________________________________________________________________.

iii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that

_The women’s movement only benefitted the females______________________
_________________________________________________________________________.
However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize
_the women’s movement promoted equality in the labor market and helped
in ridding of the identity mishap in having jobs for specific gender. Men were
not discriminated in working for female jobs and vice versa. Gender-job
associations diminished, reflected in changes in language__________________.

3. Questions (What questions would you want answers for? Or vague areas you
want more explanations about?
i. _Does having an opposite sex job have a psychological effect on a
person? Like, do they suddenly change genders?_______________________
ii. _Does culture affect the work ethics of genders in the work place?_________
________________________________________________________________________
iii. _Does identity affect the productivity of a gender in a work place?________
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