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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …

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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

Casella, Alessandra; Turban, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

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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A General Theory of Complex Living Systems: Exploring the Demand Side of Dynamics

Snooks, Graeme Donald - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...

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What Will Take the Con Out of Econometrics?

McAleer, Michael; Pagan, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

elasticity of money demand owe more to a faulty methodology than to the data. …

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Using and Abusing Economic Theory

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...

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The Bank's Market Power and the Interest Rate Elasticity of Demand for Housing: An Econometric Study of Discrimination on French Mortgage Data

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Larribeau, Sophie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We specify several variants of a structural econometric model explaining mortgage interest rates and loan sizes simultaneously. The models are estimated by simultaneous equation methods with a sample of loan files originated from a French mortgage lender. They yield estimates of the...

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Gender Interactions Within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behaviour out of …

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