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War and relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009
to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …
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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271373
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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271786
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The sustainability of empire in global perspective: The role of international trade patterns
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012
European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283599
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Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan
Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael; Faikina, Anastasiia - 2023
Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377484
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Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: A Survey
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - 2013
Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. It is important in explaining attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. We examine how economic theory measures social identity and its effects on preferences...
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Social Polarization and Partisan Voting in Representative Democracies
Duell, Dominik; Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2018
While scholars and pundits alike have expressed concern regarding increasing social polarization based on partisan identity, there has been little analysis of how social polarization impacts voting. In this paper, we incorporate social identity into a principal-agent model of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872097
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Prosociality, Political Identity, and Redistribution of Earned Income: Theory and Evidence.
Dhami, Sanjit; Manifold, Emma; al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2018
We explore the relation between social political identity and prosociality. We first construct a theoretical model to generate predictions for the behavior of players in an ultimatum game who are influenced by social political identity. Then we use a novel subject pool-registered members of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932006
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Social identity and voter turnout
Ben-Bassat, Avi; Dahan, Momi - 2008
This paper uses the unique social structure of Arab communities to examine the effect of social identity on voter turnout. We first show that voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who shares their social group (signified by last name) as compared to other candidates. Using last name as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264383
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Making the World a Better Place: Consumers' Group Identity in the Markets with Competition and Two-sided Opportunism
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2016
Consumer boycotts often provide a disciplinary mechanism against firms deviating from established social norms. Such actions tend to be organized by people through reference groups with a social mission. The intensity of the group identity is, however, private information. Therefore, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451461