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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian - 2005

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2004

What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...

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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

Mitra, Anirban - 2013

We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...

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The Economic Consequences of the 1953 London Debt Agreement

Galofré-Vilà, Gregori - 2016

In 1953 the Western Allied powers implemented a radical debt-relief plan that would, in due course, eliminate half of West Germany's external debt and create a series of favourable debt repayment conditions. The London Debt Agreement (LDA) correlated with West Germany experiencing the highest...

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What Explains the Flow of Foreign Fighters to ISIS?

Benmelech, Efraim - 2016

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the link between economic, political, and social conditions and the global phenomenon of ISIS foreign fighters. We find that poor economic conditions do not drive participation in ISIS. In contrast, the number of ISIS foreign fighters is...

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The Evolution of Top Incomes : A Historical and International Perspective

Piketty, Thomas - 2006

and wealth shares series over the century for a number of countries using tax statistics. Most countries experience a dramatic drop in top income shares in the first part of the century due to a precipitous drop in large wealth holdings during the wars and depression shocks. Top income shares do...

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Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race, and political ideology. We measure cultural distance between two groups as the ability to infer an individual's group based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer...

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Opportunities for Improving the Drug Development Process : Results from a Survey of Industry and the FDA

Berndt, Ernst R. - 2005

on additional communication than did the FDA. Furthermore, industry interviewees indicated that they were willing to pay … R&D. To assess the current issues and state of communication and interaction between the FDA and industry, we carried … unnecessary uncertainty and delays due to lack of communication and interaction …

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Ideological Segregation among Online Collaborators : Evidence from Wikipedians

Greenstein, Shane - 2016

Do online communities segregate into separate conversations about "contestable knowledge"? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics, and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute to topics with...

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Communication in Vertical Markets : Experimental Evidence

Möllers, Claudia - 2016

-known commitment problem by introducing communication. Allowing the upstream firm to chat privately with each downstream firm reduces … total offered quantity from near the Cournot level (observed in the absence of communication) halfway toward the monopoly … bargaining advantage from open communication that all of the gains from monopolizing the market accrue to them. A simple …

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