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Devictor, Xavier; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn; Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2022

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory …

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina, Alberto - 2012

This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large...

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits : Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?

Capps, Cory S. - 2017

Nonprofit hospitals receive favorable tax treatment in exchange for providing socially beneficial activities. Extending this rationale would suggest that, insofar as suppression of competition would allow nonprofits to cross-subsidize care for needy populations, nonprofit hospital mergers should...

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What is the Business of Business?

Nilsson, Andreas - 2017

This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...

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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics : Evidence from Indonesia

Bazzi, Samuel - 2018

institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical juncture in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. In the …

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Calculating Daf Payout and What We Learn When We Do it Correctly

Andreoni, James; Madoff, Ray - 2022

The tremendous increase in the use of donor-advised funds for charitable donations has led policy-makers to ask if there is sufficient regulation and oversight of DAFs. In the absence of account level reporting, the debate has focused on the average payout rates of DAF sponsoring organizations,...

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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Andreoni, James - 2010

When the government gives a grant to a private charitable organization, do the donors to that organization give less? If they do, is it because the grants crowd out donors who feel they gave through taxes (classic crowd out), or is it because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the...

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Social Distance and Quality Ratings in Charity Choice

Brown, Alexander L. - 2014

We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine how third-party ratings impact charity choice and donative behavior, particularly in regards to preferences for local charities. Subjects are given a menu of ten charities, with a mix of local and non-local organizations included. We vary whether...

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