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Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - 2021

We present a theory of ethnic conflict in which coalitions formed along ethnic lines compete for the economy%u2019s … resources. The role of ethnicity is to enforce coalition membership: in ethnically homogeneous societies members of the losing … coalition can defect to the winners at low cost, and this rules out conflict as an equilibrium outcome. We derive a number of …

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Kinship and Conflict : Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moscona, Jacob - 2018

to conflict. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by strong …. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …

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Modeling unemployment rates by race and gender : a nonlinear time series approach

Ewing, Bradley T.; Levernier, William Bernard; Malik, Farooq - In: Eastern economic journal 31 (2005) 3, pp. 333-347

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Ethnic and religious diversity and income inequality

Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Hotard, Michael J. - In: Eastern economic journal 37 (2011) 3, pp. 417-430

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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race

Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...

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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...

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Who Suffers During Recessions?

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2012

In this paper we examine how business cycles affect labor market outcomes in the United States. We conduct a detailed analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we compare the cyclical sensitivity during the Great...

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William - 2015

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …

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Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health : Evidence Using the Psid

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2010

In this paper, we provide some of the first empirical evidence of whether early occupational choices are associated with lasting effects on health status, affecting individuals as they age. We take advantage of data on occupational histories available in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)...

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Variance in Death and its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality

Tuljapurkar, Shripad - 2009

Entropy, or the gradual decline through age in the survivorship function, reflects the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences according to race, sex,...

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