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The process of economic development in West Sichuan : the case of Daocheng County

Holz, Carsten A. - 2020

Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...

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Immigration, attitudes and the rise of the political right : the role of cultural and economic concerns over immigration

Davis, Lewis S.; Deole, Sumit S. - 2015

that immigrant share of a country's population shapes citizen concerns over immigration. Thereafter, we document the roles … how the characteristics of the immigrant population affect native concerns over immigration. …

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What’s the melting pot worth? : multiculturalism and house prices

Cho, Rachel; Farag, Hisham; Görtz, Christoph; McGowan, … - 2025

Is there a multicultural neighborhood price premium? We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in British colonization patterns in Northern Ireland during the early 1600s which created neighborhoods of varying religious composition that persists until today. These religious groups are culturally...

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The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes : an analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program

Setren, Elizabeth - 2025

Over sixty years following Brown vs. Board of Education, racial and socioeconomic segregation and lack of equal access to educational opportunities persist. Across the country, voluntary desegregation busing programs aim to ameliorate these imbalances and disparities. A longstanding...

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Ethnicity and tax filing behavior

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Miao, Chizheng - 2019

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish …

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Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...

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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK

Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020

-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …

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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021

How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...

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Commodity windfalls, polarization, and net foreign assets : panel data evidence on the voracity effect

Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2011

This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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The impact of forced migration on in-group and out-group social capital

Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2022

the host population in Northern Lebanon by administering a novel survey experiment in which we manipulate the salience of … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … social spillovers to Palestinians, an established refugee population in Lebanon. We find that the impact of forced migration …

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