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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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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Kostov, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa: Perceptions Matter

Kostov, Philip; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Annim, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

specification to examine the effect of financial perception. Our results suggests that after controlling for endogeneity of choices … of financial perception however reduces and gradually disappears as one moves up the financial access ladder towards more …

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Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data

Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the …

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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants

d'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our findings show that higher education leads to a more...

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