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Alsan, Marcella - 2020

willingness to trade off civil liberties for improved public health conditions. Second, consistent across countries, exposure to … health risks is associated with citizens' greater willingness to trade off civil liberties, though individuals who are more … the pandemic progresses, though the underlying correlation between individuals' worry about health and their attitudes …

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Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era

Thompson, Owen - 2019

Large black-white fertility differences are a key feature of US demography, and are closely related to the broader dynamics of US racial inequality. To better understand the origins and determinants of racial fertility differentials, this paper examines fertility patterns in the period...

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Gun Control after Heller : Litigating against Regulation

Cook, Philip J. - 2009

The "core right" established in D.C. vs. Heller (2008) is to keep an operable handgun in the home for self-defense purposes. If the Court extends this right to cover state and local jurisdictions, the result is likely to include the elimination of the most stringent existing regulations - such...

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Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination

Black, Sandra E. - 2002

While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there has been little work testing this dynamic process. This paper tests the hypothesis (based on Becker 1957) that increased competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s...

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Continuous Versus Episodic Change : The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks

Donohue, John J, III. - 1991

This paper examines the available evidence on the causes of black economic advance in order to assess the contribution of federal policy. Over the period 1920-1990, there were only two periods of relative black economic improvement -- during the 1940s and in the decade following the passage of...

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The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic : Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment

Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

procedures more generally, despite our prior evidence that pandemic-related health risks diminished such support. These results …

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International Migration and Human Rights

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...

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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

Elliott, Kimberly Ann - 2001

With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...

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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian - 2014

We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...

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