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Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using a large Australian social survey, combined with precise data on neighbourhood characteristics, I explore the factors that affect trust at a local level (‘localised trust’) and at a national level (‘generalised trust’). Trust is positively associated with the respondent’s...

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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

Donohue, John J; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release

Mechoulan, Stéphane; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … system. Further evidence rules out post-release discrimination. We propose different hypotheses to account for the evidence. …

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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Clark, Deborah A. Cobb; Antecol, Heather - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday … commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report that they or their families have experienced racial discrimination … in finding non-government housing or in patronizing businesses in their local communities. Discrimination is related to a …

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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Insidious Discrimination? Disentangling the Beauty Premium on a Game Show

Belot, Michèle; Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Van de Ven, Jeroen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

value basis for the beauty premium, and it appears that this is a form of insidious discrimination. …

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Discrimination and Skill Differences in an Equilibrium Search Model

Bowlus, Audra J; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …

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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions

Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John H.; Haider, Steven J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....

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Freedom Fries

Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favourability rating in US public opinion...

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