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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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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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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 role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that new CEOs with foreign backgrounds direct their firms to become more international in their operations. We examine this hypothesis formally using data on U.S. S&P-500 manufacturing firms from 1992 through 1997 and biographical information on CEOs' birth and...
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knowledge. We develop a model in which DMs learn general management by communicating with FMs, but communication effort is non …-contractible. These conditions generate sub-optimal communication within the MNC. If communication is complementary with language skills …
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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102 firms to study if CEO turnover impacts employees' communication flows. We find that CEO turnover leads to an initial … decrease in intra-firm communication, followed by a significant increase approximately five months after the CEO change. The … increase is driven primarily by vertical (i.e. manager to employee) communication. Greater increases in communication after CEO …
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What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank … evaluate the impact of within bank communication costs on small business loans. Consistent with Stein's (2002) model of the …
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