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We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation...
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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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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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Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …
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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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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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We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
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We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...
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