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The intricacy of adapting to climate change : flood protection as a local public goods game
Bondarev, Anton; Hintermann, Beat; Krysiak, Frank C.; … - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer, and the presence and nature of spillovers to...
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Ethnic inequality and economic growth : evidence from harmonized satellite data
Gründler, Klaus; Link, Andreas - 2024
Inequality between ethnic groups has been shown to be negatively related to GDP, but research on its effect on contemporary economic growth is limited by the availability of comparable data. We compile a novel and comprehensive dataset of harmonized Gini indices on ethnic inequality for...
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Market segregation in the presence of customer discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014284743
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Much ado about nothing? : the role of primary school catchment areas for ethnic school segregation ; evidence from a policy reform
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2013
ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we contribute to this debate by analyzing ethnic segregation before … and after the reform. We discuss drawbacks of commonly used segregation indices and their interpretation as well as … causality issues. Although there is an increase in segregation over the time period studied, our results show that segregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223048
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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? : evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684076
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof (contributor); Fredriksson, Peter (contributor) - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts the number of individuals of the same ethnicityand the quality of contacts welfare use among members of the ethnic group. OLS...
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Building social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools : an intervention on perspective taking
Alan, Sule; Baysan, Ceren; Gumren, Mert; Kubilay, Elif - 2020
We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context where the ethnic composition in schools has changed due to a massive influx of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387528
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Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes : evidence from race-blind magnet school lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2018
. Segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after attending more … segregated schools. Ultimately, mandated segregation decreases student test scores and college attendance. …
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023
The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...
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