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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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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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We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that...
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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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characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in …
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' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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