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Minority groups and success in election primaries
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
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The forest behind the tree : heterogeneity in how US governor's party affects black workers
Tchuente, Guy; Kakeu, Johnson; Francois, John Nana - 2021
Income inequality is a distributional phenomenon. This paper examines the impact of U.S governor's party allegiance (Republican vs Democrat) on ethnic wage gap. A descriptive analysis of the distribution of yearly earnings of Whites and Blacks reveals a divergence in their respective shapes over...
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An exploratory study of populism : the municipality-level predictors of electoral outcomes in Italy
Levi, Eugenio; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
We present an exploratory machine learning analysis of populist votes at municipality level in the 2018 Italian general elections, in which populist parties gained almost 50% of the votes. Starting from a comprehensive set of local characteristics, we use an algorithm based on BIC to obtain a...
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Updates on returns to education in India : analysis using PLFS 2018-19 data
Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2018-19. OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation are presented. Various econometric techniques (e.g., conventional IV and heteroskedasticity-based IV...
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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Sexual orientation and earnings : a meta-analysis 2012-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This meta-analysis utilizes 24 papers published between 2012-2020 that focus on earnings differences by sexual orientation. The papers cover the period between 1991 and 2018, and countries in Europe, North America and Australia. The meta-analysis indicates that gay men earned less than...
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capitalis not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs ofinvesting in new skills or methods and will be...
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Optimally targeting interventions in networks during a pandemic : theory and evidence from the networks of nursing homes in the United States
Pongou, Roland; Tchuente, Guy; Tondji, Jean-Baptiste - 2021
This study develops an economic model for a social planner who prioritizes health over short- term wealth accumulation during a pandemic. Agents are connected through a weighted undirected network of contacts, and the planner's objective is to determine the policy that contains the spread of...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans
Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021
The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...
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