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We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...
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-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect …
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This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes … in the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, in South Africa as that country re …
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kinds of financial crises for four countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States) over the long-run …
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We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … experienced faster growth. Consistent with the literature on economic development in Canada, we find that scale economies … controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …
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) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant … significantly impact the standardized test scores of students with Spanish as their home language (comprised primarily of ever …
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Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …
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This paper proposes a new method to measure ethnolinguistic diversity and offers new results linking such diversity with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the...
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language in visual art was dominated by conceptual artists, and the increasing role of language over time was symptomatic of … intellectual activity, to be read. The prominence of language is yet another way in which the visual art of the twentieth century …
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