Renan Chaves Yoshida

Graduate Student Research Funding | 2021 - 2022 Academic Year

Stigma, Beliefs and Productivity

Stigma is present in many societies and are sometimes institutionalized, as in India's caste system. This can affect many important areas of one's life such as education or labor market outcomes. Why does stigma persist? Yoshida hypothesizes that people who are stigmatized internalize the stigma and this directly influences their self-confidence and perceived returns to effort, which can lead to caste differences in performance that can perpetuate stigma and discrimination. Yoshida proposes to conduct some exploratory work in India in order to test this hypothesis.

Renan Chaves Yoshida, Department of Economics

Renan C. Yoshida is a PhD candidate in economics at Stanford University. His research is in the field of development economics and behavioral economics. His main focus is on how norms, identity and stigma interact with economic forces and affect worker productivity, labor supply and demand for education. Currently, he is particularly interested in how stigma affects the job performance of disadvantaged groups in India and how this can perpetuate stigma and discrimination. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Sao Paulo and an MA in economics from the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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