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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2024

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer (2010) showed that areas under direct colonial rule had fewer schools, health centers, and roads than areas under indirect colonial rule. Two decades later, we find that these...

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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

research. -- growth ; Africa ; history ; colonization ; institutions ; state fragility ; slavery … research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history …

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Last hired, first fired? : black-white unemployment and the business cycle

Couch, Kenneth A. (contributor); … - 2008

Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...

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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories : theory and test

Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor); … - 2008

The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A...

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Crime, unemployment, and xenophobia? : an ecological analysis of right-wing election results in Hamburg, 1986-2005

Rotte, Ralph (contributor); Steininger, Martin (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of right-wing extremist and populist parties in the German city state of Hamburg between 1986 and 2005. The ecological determinants of voting for right-wing parties on the district...

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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? : an experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring

Carlsson, Magnus (contributor); Rooth, Dan-Olof (contributor) - 2008

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...

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Speed discounting and racial disparities : evidence from speeding tickets in Boston

Anbarcı, Nejat (contributor); Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2008

Law enforcement officers are allowed to exercise a significant amount of street-level discretion in a variety of ways. In this paper, we focus on a particular prominent kind of discretionary behavior by traffic officers when issuing speeding tickets, speed discounting. Officers partially forgive...

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The impact of being monitored on discriminatory behavior among employers : evidence from a natural experiment

Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009

Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the right to conduct discrimination tests and to even...

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The economics of discrimination : evidence from basketball

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...

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"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma" : Roma discrimination and returns to education in South Eastern Europe

O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2009

This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify the determinants of educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML...

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