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Borderline Disorder : (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … across artificial regions within an ethnicity's historical homeland and a theory-based instrumental variable approach, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822452
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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near … historical ethnic borders in Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358713
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'Living' Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325044
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Does Economics Make You Sexist?
Paredes, Valentina - 2020
Recent research has highlighted unequal treatment for women in academic economics along several different dimensions: promotion, hiring, credit for co-authorship, and standards for publication in professional journals. Can the source of these differences lie in biases against women that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834573
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Bread and Bullets
Akerlof, George A. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999037
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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior : A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146174
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Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior : First Evidence on a Causal Link
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143687
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Inter-Ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-Looking Behavior : Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia
Beam, Emily - 2016
Demographic pressures can create competition for limited private and public resources and exacerbate pre-existing inter-ethnic tensions. At the same time, inter-ethnic competition may influence individual fertility decisions. Using the variation in birth rates in Malaysia induced by the Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978161
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Does War Foster Cooperation or Parochialism? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Among Turkish Conscripts
Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - 2023
Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260612
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics … network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … not explain why they emerge. On the contrary, the economics approach is very precise in explaining why networks emerge but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153178