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'One Muslim is Enough!' - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Adida, Claire L. - 2011

Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...

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The Costs of Agglomeration : Land Prices in French Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity), possibly...

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Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Valfort, Marie‐Anne - 2018

Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates …

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes : An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

conventional laboratory environment with students and retirees. Our results are compelling. First, seniors are not more risk … environment and there is no significant difference in performance in the real-effort task across the generations when they are … non-workers, indicating that laboratory experiments may not be such a bad approximation for the field environment …

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