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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...
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, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender … in total work time—work for pay and work at home. In rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do … about the same average amount of total work. Survey results demonstrate, however, that labor economists, macroeconomists …
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facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We … withineducation group and within-region gender differences in total work being smaller than inter-group differences. It is consistent …
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The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....
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market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
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Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences and can communicate with each other. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language, building infrastructure for easier travel, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures...
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Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …
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