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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: March 15, 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened … revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being among blacks relative to whites. Investigating various measures of well …-being, we find that the well-being of blacks has increased both absolutely and relative to that of whites. While a racial gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727116
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Cross-racial envy and underinvestment in South Africa
Haile, Daniel (contributor); Sadrieh, Abdolkarim (contributor) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301019
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A quantile approach to the relationship between body mass, wealth, and inequality
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
. Nineteenth century BMI values were also greater for blacks than whites. There was a positive relationship between 19th century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806677
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
April 2020 upper-bound unemployment rates are an alarming 31.8 percent for blacks and 31.4 percent for Latinx. Difference …-in-difference estimates suggest that blacks were, at most, only slightly disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Non-linear decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223833
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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karinq; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2011
In recent decades, the immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition of the population in many countries has consequently become much more heterogeneous in terms of ethnic background. If people exhibit in-group bias in the sense of being more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009105
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199424
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Trust, racial fragmentation and income inequality : new evidence from the US
Tesei, Andrea - 2014
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260009
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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2014 - Rev.
This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249669
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Land grabbing and ethnic conflict
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016
We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509451
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Ethnic favoritism : an axiom of politics?
De Luca, Giacomo; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479931