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Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-Worker : The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2021

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes : Theory and Evidence

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2021

examines how attitudes translate into a migration policy outcome. We consider two alternative political-economy frameworks: the … explain this puzzle. We find evidence from regression analysis supporting both political-economy frameworks …

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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Iyigun, Murat - 2021

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …

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The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States : A Review of the Recent Literature

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2021

This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and … demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital …

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Is Education the Panacea for Economic Deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from Wage Earners in India, 1987-2005

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2021

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...

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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali; Tansel, Aysit - 2021

, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …

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Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline A.; Senik, Claudia - 2021

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

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Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective

Dees, Stephane; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; … - 2021

New Keynesian Phillips Curves (NKPC) have been extensively used in the analysis of monetary policy, but yet there are a number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to the underlying macroeconomic theory. The first is whether such equations are identified. To check...

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The Baby Boom and World War II : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - 2021

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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