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Bend It Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that...

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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Alesina, Alberto - 2014

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit the exogenous timing of variations in the level of ethnic heterogeneity due to the creation of new...

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Culture and Language

Lazear, Edward P. - 1995

acquisition of majority language skills can be socially beneficial. The theory is tested and confirmed by examining U.S. Census …

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How Strong are Ethnic Preferences?

Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal - 2015

experiments to isolate the role of one such mechanism--ethnic preferences--which has been central in both theory and in the … relative to non-coethnics. The results run strongly against the common presumption of extensive ethnic bias among ordinary …

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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions

Bazzi, Samuel - 2018

This paper argues that redrawing subnational political boundaries can transform ethnic divisions. We use a natural policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within which groups are organized. Redistricting along group...

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Social Structure and Conflict : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Moscona, Jacob - 2018

We test the long-standing hypothesis that ethnic groups that are organized around `segmentary lineages' are more prone to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by strong allegiances to distant relatives, individuals...

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R. - 2015

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more likely than other immigrants to operate dry cleaners, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are 108...

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Judges, Juveniles and In-group Bias

Depew, Briggs - 2016

We investigate the existence of in-group bias (preferential treatment of one's own group) in court decisions. Using the … to judges, we find evidence for negative racial in-group bias in judicial decisions. All else the same, black (white … of negative in-group bias, based on a randomization design outside of the lab. Explanations for this finding are provided …

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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