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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian - 2012
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from Us Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P; Peri, Giovanni - 2022
What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...
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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control
Welsch, Roy E. - 2021
The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Following Through on Good Intentions : The Power of Planning Prompts
Milkman, Katherine L. - 2012
We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals' responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial appointments. At four companies, all employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to receive either a control mailing or a treatment mailing. The...
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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending
Levine, Ross - 2019
We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank … evaluate the impact of within bank communication costs on small business loans. Consistent with Stein's (2002) model of the …
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Can Simple Informational Nudges Increase Employee Participation in a 401(K) Plan?
Clark, Robert L. - 2015
We report results from a field experiment in which a randomized subset of newly hired workers at a large financial institution received a flyer containing information about the employer's 401(k) plan and the value of contributions compounding over a career. Younger workers who received the flyer...
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason; Saouma, Richard E.; Seegert, Nathan; … - 2022
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism
Andreoni, James - 2010
communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between … recipients had been able to ask, even when they were silent. We conclude that communication dramatically influences altruistic …
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