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for an extensive set of geographical and historical factors of development and minority settlement patterns. Matching type … by their legacy on local human capital accumulation. In comparison, the mediating effect of minority asset transfer on …
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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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the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …
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ardent supporters) into majority-minority districts. House delegations had more Hispanics suggesting that partisan …
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minority peers decreases student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement and it results in lower student test … scores. Observables correlated with minority status explain less than a third of the reduced-form test score effect while …
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I consider a market with two firms, a minority group of customers, and a bigoted (racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, or … only the minority and a high-price firm serves only the majority. There is also a partial-integration equilibrium in which … a high-price firm serves only the majority while a low-price firm serves both the minority and majority. Paradoxically …
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In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and 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...
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We study market rents in the neighborhood of asylum seeker hosting centers. Our empirical setting exploits the quasi-random opening of centers and spatial allocation of asylum seekers in Switzerland. Rents within 0.7km of an active center are found on average to be 3.8% lower than rents in the...
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Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of refugees into Europe. The different departure points along the Turkish coast generate exogenous variation in refugee arrivals across Greek islands. We construct a new dataset on the number and nature of...
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