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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China

Harris, Richard I. D. - 2017

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...

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The Economics of Politics : Patronage and Political Selection in Italy

Quaresima, Federico - 2017

This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the …, where the interests of political parties and districts may diverge, the formers would need patronage resource to assure … parliamentarians' loyalty does play a role in patronage appointments as well as the electoral result in the next electoral competition …

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Ethnic Favoritism : An Axiom of Politics?

De Luca, Giacomo - 2015

We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...

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Kinship Systems, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2018

An influential body of psychological and anthropological theories holds that societies exhibit heterogeneous cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce cooperative behavior. According to some of these theories, entire...

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Knowing the Right Person in the Right Place : Political Connections and economic Growth

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2021

Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast...

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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

We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...

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