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Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful than Others?
Lazear, Edward P. - 2017
, immigrants from Algeria have higher educational attainment than those from Israel or Japan. Also true is that there is a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455134
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State Versus Private Ownership
Shleifer, Andrei - 1998
costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …
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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism
Shleifer, Andrei - 1991
We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …
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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
Tella, Rafael Di - 2007
corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465489
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459164
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Financial Crisis in a Socialist Setting : Impact on Political Behavior, Social Trust, and Economic Values
Abramitzky, Ran; Ben-Porath, Netanel; Lavy, Victor; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Research on the political and social impacts of financial crises has focused chiefly on free market economies, hindering our understanding of their effects in other settings. We exploit an episode of a financial crisis that hit the Israeli kibbutzim to study its impact in a socialist context....
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Racial Concordance and the Quality of Medical Care : Evidence from the Military
Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
One explanation for insufficient use of primary care in the U.S. is a lack of trust between patients and providers - particularly along racial lines. We assess the role of racial concordance between patients and medical providers in driving use of preventive care and the implications for patient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477259
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The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on the Take-up of Disability Benefits by Race and Ethnicity
Staiger, Becky; Helfer, Madeline S.; Van Parys, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public disability programs provide financial support to 12 million working-age individuals per year, though not all eligible individuals take up these programs. Mixed evidence exists regarding the impact of Medicaid eligibility expansion on program take-up, and even less is known about the...
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337855
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Do PCI Facility Openings Differentially Affect AMI Patients by Individual Race and Community Segregation?
Hsia, Renee Y.; Shen, Yu-Chu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Percutaneous coronary intervention facility openings may have differential effects on treatment and health outcomes for Black versus White patients in residentially segregated versus integrated communities. This study looked at changes in patient treatment and health outcomes (same-day PCI, PCI...
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