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data from the British Election Survey in 2014, we employ two distinct measures of political orientation, capturing … are some 15-23 percent less likely to change attitudes radically towards the left or the right across different waves of …
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This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British … Election Study. We find a significant negative relationship between financial literacy and attitudes in favour of government … instrumental variable regressions. Falsification tests show that these results are independent of generic attitudes towards other …
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such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards … about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are …
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This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...
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Work Orientation module International Social Survey Programme to look at the attitudes of residents of these countries …
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We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending is associated with national innovation towards war...
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This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database … unique source for micro-regional empirical research in economic history, enabling analyses of the importance of such factors …
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This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database … unique source for micro-regional empirical research in economic history, enabling analyses of the importance of such factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079234
In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...
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Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper, we study Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent suburban districts. Metco increases the...
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