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.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from …
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collaborative contact, through random assignment to homogeneous-caste or mixed-caste teams, and adversarial contact, through random … assignment of opponents. Collaborative contact increases cross-caste friendships and efficiency in trade, and reduces own-caste … favoritism. In contrast, adversarial contact generally reduces cross-caste interaction and efficiency. League participation …
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While World War II (WWII) is often employed as natural experiment to identify long-term effects of adverse early …
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which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value …
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Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …
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How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal...
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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We examine whether information about racial discrimination causally affects support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of hiring discrimination against blacks. Relative to Republicans, Democrats...
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time, an accommodative monetary policy shock exacerbates the wealth difference between black and white households, because …
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