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Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic 13,516 resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor,...

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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding - 2015

We document that rules for leadership succession in ethnic societies that antedate the modern state predict contemporary political regimes; leadership selection by election in indigenous societies is associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association, however, is...

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The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos

Evans, William N.; Topoleski, Julie H. - 2021

In the late 1980s, a series of legal rulings favorable to tribes and the subsequent passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 legalized gaming operations on reservations in many states. Today, there are over 310 gaming operations run by more than 200 of the nations' 556...

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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"

Cai, Hongbin - 2014

Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's quot;Silicon Valley,quot; we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) affect local entrepreneurship and Ramp;D activities upon entry. We find that Ramp;D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate entry of domestic firms into the same...

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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico

Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016

Work in positive psychology decomposes hope into aspirations, agency, and pathways. Operating in the context of an economic model developed with this framework, we review the literature on hope from philosophy, theology, psychology, and its relationship to emerging work on aspirations in...

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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics

Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...

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Finders, Keepers?

Jaakkola, Niko - 2016

Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...

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The Taxation of Exhaustible Resources

Dasgupta, Partha; Heal, Geoffrey M.; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021

This paper analyzes the effect of taxation on the intertemporal allocation of an exhaustible resource. A general framework within which a large variety of taxes can be analyzed is developed and then applied to a number of specific taxes. It is shown that there exists a pattern of taxation which...

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Industrial Actions in Schools : Strikes and Student Achievement

Baker, Michael - 2011

While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...

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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

), but were no different compared to foreign applicants from Britain. 2) Employers valued experience acquired in Canada much … more than if acquired in a foreign country. Changing foreign resumes to include only experience from Canada raised callback … Canada or not, or whether the applicant obtained additional Canadian education or not had no impact on the chances for an …

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