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Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason for why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirical evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian central bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a...
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I use a regression discontinuity design to study incumbency effects in Brazilian mayoral elections. For mayors elected in 1996 I find no evidence of an incumbency effect on the probability of being elected in 2000. For the 2000-2004 electoral cycle I also find no effect except for races where...
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According to our model effective 'budgetary' separation of power occurs in the states with the line-item veto when the Governor is not aligned with the Legislature. Only then is the Legislature, which approves the budget and sets the tax level, not the full residual claimant of a tax release....
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Homophily is the tendency to establish relationships among people who share similar characteristics or attributes. This study presents evidence of homophilic behaviour for an adolescent friendship network of 6,961 links in the West of England. We control for unobserved characteristics by...
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segregation. We track the moves of a single cohort as it approaches the secondary school admission age. We also combine a number … same result: moving is significantly negatively correlated with school quality, and segregation does increase as a cohort … reaches age 11. However, this relationship is weak: the increase in segregation is slight and quantitative significance of the …
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segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explore its nature and spatial variation. We … find substantial segregation on ethnic criteria in some places. Nevertheless, over the country as a whole, attendance at …
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Much work on residential segregation in urban areas has focused on aspatial indices of urban residential segregation … approach to studying segregation. This paper uses two of those measures – Moran’s I and Getis and Ord’s G* – to explore … segregation of the four main ethnic groups in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest and most multi-ethnic city, at the four most recent …
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This paper focuses on one of the outcomes arising from England’s choice based education system; the extent to which different types of pupils are sorted across schools. Pupil sorting will in turn impact on attainment outcomes, if there are peer group effects operating within schools. We...
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The most widely used measure of segregation is the dissimilarity index, D. It is now well understood that this measure … deviations from randomness. This leads to potentially large values of the segregation index when unit sizes and/or minority … proportions are small, even if there is no underlying systematic segregation. Our response to this is to produce an adjustment to …
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Much has been written about ethnic residential segregation in urban areas, almost all of it deploying single …-index numbers to measure the degree of segregation. These give very little detailed appreciation of the extent to which different … population composition of each area, provides much greater insight into the nature and extent of segregation. Data for London in …
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