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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008

and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … education while presence of capitalist elite, as reflected in greater degree of industrialisation enhances it, even in poorer …

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A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Janys, Lena; Mammen, Enno; … - 2014

We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker or covariate effects. A number of well-known models are special cases. In a counting process...

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The economic benefits of volunteering and social class

Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, John; Mantovan, Noemi - 2019

A theory that the economic benefits of volunteering are contingent on social class (as defined by similarities in labour market situation) is tested using seven waves of longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Study gathered between 1996 and 2008 and fixed-effects models. Volunteering...

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Class ridden or meritocratic? : an economic analysis of recent changes in Britain

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2002

In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...

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An Arab, an Asian, and a Black guy walk into a job interview : ethnic stigma in hiring after controlling for social class

Borm, Hannah Van; Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn - 2022

Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...

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Selecting names for experiments on ethnic discrimination

Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Borm, Hannah Van - 2022

In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the names used for ethnic minorities in various...

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Gender differences in cooperative environments? : evidence from the U.S. congress

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2016

This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...

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The struggle over migration policy

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Nitsan, Shemuʾel (contributor) - 2005

In this paper we analyze the endogenous determination of migration quota viewing it as an outcome of a two-stage political struggle between two interest groups: those in favor and those against the proposed migration quota. We first compare the proposed policies of the two interest groups under...

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Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power

Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2020

Policy reforms are often multifaceted. In the rent-seeking literature policies are usually taken as one-dimensional. This paper models policy formation using a political contest with endogenous policy proposals containing two dimensions. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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