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, only landowners can afford to think. Human capital thus grows with the size of the landowning class. With polygynous mating …, rich landowners attract more women than landless, and thus have more offspring. This leads to a slow expansion in the size … of the landowning class and thus a gradual increase in the levels of human capital. At some stage human capital may reach …
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Arguably the most important campaign finance regulations in U.S. federal elections are limits imposed on the amount that an individual or organization may donate to a federal campaign. Such contribution limits are advocated on two separate grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the...
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consumption on luxurious goods for the rich, and higher the economical equality for the poor. This will be far from spoiling the …
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reduction in rural areas. This paper reviews contemporary empirical and conceptual thinking on the economics of diversity, non …
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participate in non-farm rural enterprise and employment opportunities. We place emphasis on the diversity and diversification of …
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The current organization of forensic work may induce biases in forensic analysis (Risinger et al. 2002). Such biases may have a differential impact across groups, creating differential bias. We should reorganize forensic work to reduce differential bias. The obvious strategy of hiring ethnically...
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The setting of user prices for enterprises with large fixed costs and marginal costs below average costs – “natural monopolies” – raises important policy questions regarding both efficiency and equity. It has become well accepted among economists that, in a variety of settings, welfare...
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gender groups. Building on Wial's (1991) case study of networks in Boston which distribute good jobs, the `network hypothesis … predominantly white males and live outside of the county, thereby limiting access for others partly on the basis of race and gender …
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, perceived social class, education, happiness, and whether they became a parent before 25). We find that first name features on …, we also find evidence based on the differential impacts of gender and race on the blackness of a name and its popularity … that suggest that discrimination may also be a factor. …
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are also more likely to experience success in confirmations. We found no evidence of gender or race discrimination on the … debate, but little systematic evidence has been presented to substantiate claims regarding discrimination against particular …
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