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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

accumulation of society-specific human capital. Thus, they operated more efficiently with respect to their production …

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Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2010

In the past two elections, richer people were more likely to vote Republican while richer states were more likely to vote Democratic. This switch is an aggregation reversal, where an individual relationship, like income and Republicanism, is reversed at some level of aggregation. Aggregation...

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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A. - 2010

This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...

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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence from the Highscope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2010

Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...

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"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited : An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-Economic Status to Health

Stowasser, Till - 2011

Much has been said about the stylized fact that the economically successful are not only wealthier but also healthier than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there remains a vivid debate about its source. In this paper, we...

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The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

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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Marry for What : Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - 2022

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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Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State : Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900

Bloch, Ruth H. - 2015

society. Our chapter revises the standard Tocquevillian account of associational freedom in the early United States by …

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The Empiricists' Insurgency

Berman, Eli - 2015

Research on insurgency has been invigorated this past decade by better data, improved methods, and the urgency of understanding active engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. This empiricists' insurgency reinforces a classic literature on the essential role of civilians while challenging older...

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Structural Estimation of Caloric Intake, Exercise, Smoking, and Obesity

Kelly, Inas - 2021

The escalating rate of obesity in the US highlights the importance of understanding the causes for this rise. In this paper I employ the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate a structural model of the determinants of adult obesity. To control for...

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