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We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …
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This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk …, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract … points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects …
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approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of …'s prescribed behaviors. We propose and estimate a modified demand system to quantify the identity changes that followed India …
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The Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is arguably the most controversial dam ever built in India, with over a 100 …—a term used in India to cover a list of tribes viewed as so backward and historically oppressed that the Indian Constitution …
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or social relations. At the other are despotic states which dominate civil society. Yet there are others which are locked … into an ongoing competition with civil society and it is these, not the despotic ones, that develop the greatest capacity …) and civil society (representing non-elite citizens), where both players can invest to increase their power. The model …
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Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...
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We report on recent findings of a fruitful research agenda that explores the importance of ethnic-specific traits in shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals identify with their ethnic group as often as with the...
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What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...
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