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Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Hoff, Karla; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy – the caste system – affects individuals'...

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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach

Habyarimana, James; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, Daniel N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....

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Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper examines how exogenous income transfers during adolescence affect contemporaneous body mass index (BMI) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra income differ depending on the households’ initial...

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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...

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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …

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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

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