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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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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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, 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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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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market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
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A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a … institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical, and historical bent to assess the presence of a two-way causal effect …
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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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We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on both focus both cities in developed countries (the US) and villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political...
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This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit the exogenous timing of variations in the level of ethnic heterogeneity due to the creation of new...
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Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and African-Americans. Women's and Hispanics' relative earnings are harmed by negative shocks, while the earnings...
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