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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 - CESifo - 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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Anthropometry of Love - Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages

Belot, Michèle - 2011

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...

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Welfare-Optimal Status Planning of Minority Languages : An Economic Approach

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2011

We analyze normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. It is shown in a welfare-maximizing model where rights today influence the status of a language in the future, that the “naïve” ex ante cost-benefit analysis has to be augmented in various...

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2014

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms

Hjort, Jonas - 2013

A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...

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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development

Lessmann, Christian - 2017

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent … show that the distribution of resources is a major driving factor of ethnic income inequality and, thus, induces rent … performance and the onset of civil conflicts. We show that the inequality in the spatial distribution of resource endowments …

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Minorities, Human Capital and Long-Run Development : Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2017

We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...

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Economic Nationalism and Economic Integration : The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century

Schulze, Max-Stephan - 2009

This paper seeks to reconcile two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other stressing significant improvements in market...

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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness across Ethnic Groups : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Bartos, Vojtech - 2018

We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...

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Diasporas

Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009

Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in an another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. Our...

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