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Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact : A Field Experiment
Finseraas, Henning - 2019
We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results...
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211015
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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
Bahar, Dany - 2019
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823554
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Ethnic Geography: Measurement and Evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
, generalized ethnic fractionalization, and the alignment of spatial and ethnic distances. We use maps of traditional ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777585
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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …
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Global Innovation Contests
Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023
This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262950
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Cross-racial envy and underinvestment in South Africa
Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2006
Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa. The amount of socio-economic information available to the subjects about their counterparts is varied. No significant behavioural differences are observed, when no such...
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