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violence against Jews in the 1920s, and of votes for the Nazi Party. In addition, cities that saw medieval anti …-Semitic violence also had higher deportation rates for Jews after 1933, were more likely to see synagogues damaged or destroyed in the …
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side demands votes and each demand enough votes to alone control a majority. The probability of a minority victory is … independent of the size of the minority and converges to one half, for any minority size, when the electorate is arbitrarily large …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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1973 and 1995. We find robust evidence of bias against minority defendants who killed white victims: in Direct Appeal and … Habeas Corpus the probability of error in these cases is 3 and 9 percentage points higher, respectively, than for minority … defendants who killed minority victims. …
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We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … minority and White prisoners become marginal from the perspective of their probability of parole violation. Parole boards … system. Further evidence rules out post-release discrimination. We propose different hypotheses to account for the evidence. …
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This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
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in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …
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anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that participating firms become less likely to interview and hire minority … to a minority. …
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