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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence

Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017

diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. …

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Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa

Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018

-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …

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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?

Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020

capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …

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Vaccination decisions and social capital in Japan

Okubo, Toshihiro; Noy, Ilan - 2024

, vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic has been closely related to people's trust in their governments given governments …. Social capital, in this context, refers to community trust, collaboration, and engagement that create social bonds between … for institutional trust (especially trust in the medical system). However, this general association between trust in other …

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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015

Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...

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Efficiency, fairness, and social cohesion in Europe and the United States : incomes, hours of work, and equality with an afterhought on Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016

The paper discusses the European Union as a union of primarily small European states, a union whose parallel emphasis on efficiency and fairness, including deep respect for human rights, holds the key to Europe's economic and social advances over the years. The paper shows that adjusting...

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Roots of inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023 - This version: August 2023

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning diﬀerentials reﬂect variations in productive traits among individuals, a signiﬁcant component of the diﬀerences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to...

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Increasing workplace diversity : evidence from a recruiting experiment at a Fortune 500 company

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2018 - This version: April 11, 2018

The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities. White males occupy most high-profile positions in the largest U.S. corporations whereas African Americans, Hispanics, and women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles....

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Diversity and discrimination in the classroom

Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024

German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms … trust in culturally polarized environments. …

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Roots of cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2024

This study reveals the pivotal impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on global variation in the degree of cultural diversity within ethnic and national populations. Drawing on novel diversity measures—encompassing folkloric and musical traditions among indigenous ethnic groups, as...

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