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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”
Payson, Steven - 2019
The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...
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Violent Conflict and Parochial Trust: Lab-in-the-Field and Survey Evidence
Werner, Katharina; Skali, Ahmed - 2023
How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (first-hand) experience with conflict induces parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through...
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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants: Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
design effective post-immigration policies. …
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School Friendship Networks, Homophily and Multiculturalism: Evidence from European Countries
Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2020
This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network formation and estimating it using a sample (CILS4EU) of about 10,000 secondary school students in four countries: England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea...
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The Slippery Slope from Pluralistic to Plural Societies
Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2021
examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …
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Learning from the Origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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Turkish University Students’ Self-Perceptions of Aging: An Analysis Over Socio-Economic Dimensions
Yumurtaci, Aynur; Bagis, Bilal - 2019
University students represent nearly more than half of the youth population (age group of 15-24) in Turkey. Meanwhile, the latest demographic data shows that they will constitute a majority of the elder generation in the context of the recent rapid aging trend in the near future. That said, and...
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The Effect of the 2016 United States Presidential Election on Employment Discrimination
Gorzig, Marina Mileo; Rho, Deborah - 2020
We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … difference between white and Somali American applicants increased by 8 percentage points. The increased discrimination … 2018 to test for seasonality in discrimination; there was no substantial increase in discrimination after the 2017 election. …
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Exchange rate, remittances and expenditure of foreign-born households: evidence from Australia
Hasan, Syed; Ratna, Nazmun; Shakur, Shamim - 2019
We examined the impact of the depreciation of the Australian dollar (AU$) during 2013-2015 on the expenditure of households with foreign-born members (HFBMs) in Australia. Employing the difference-in-differences method and 2013-2015 Nielson Homescan Panel Survey data, we found that HFBMs spent...
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Stalin and the origins of mistrust
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga; Otrachshenko, Vladimir - 2019
We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin's rule, which was marked by high incarceration rates, repression, and harsh punishments. We argue that those exposed to forced labor camps...
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