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the face of what they consider the incoherent era of "pluralism" or "postmodernism" that began in the late twentieth …
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We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA … diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance …. The design of the course allows for identification of the causal implications of horizontal and vertical diversity. The …
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We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people …'s birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants …) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated by skill level. We show that birthplace diversity is largely …
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The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important question is how much of that resulted from government restrictions on activity versus people voluntarily choosing to stay home to avoid infection. This paper examines the drivers of the collapse using cellular...
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also explore the correlation between diversity and state-level variations. Finally, we discuss how these patterns are …
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Many studies find that presentation of balanced information, offering competing positions, can promote polarization and thus increase preexisting social divisions. We offer two explanations for this apparently puzzling phenomenon. The first involves what we call asymmetric Bayesianism: the same...
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government intervention? To answer this question, this paper introduces diversity to the canonical model of quot;warm glowquot …; giving. Diversity may have two effects on incentives: it may attenuate individuals' altruistic preferences for public goods …
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of a pluralism without privilege, but they also had doubts about its possibility. They offered some reasons to prefer … pluralism with privilege to the absence of both. They worried that centralization, democratic or otherwise, might be the … preeminent fact of modern state consolidation, and that purely voluntary, equal, associational pluralism might not be powerful …
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interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of …
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We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century. We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the...
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