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We construct a dedicated web interface and use it to conduct a laboratory experiment to study willingness to lend and preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related...
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higher resource flow as well as homophily reinforce decision-makers' ideological bias. We highlight that competing lobbyists …
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more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …
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homophily in their taste and perception of innovative ideas. The second element is that reviewers are different in the time they …
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We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We study the structural differences between the children network of friends reported by children and the one elicited asking their parents. We find that the parents' network has a...
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We consider the implications of gender homophily in Economics, which has persisted despite the significant increase in … women in the field. As women remain underrepresented, gender homophily may serve as a constraint in collaboration. It could …. We show that gender homophily neither constrains collaboration nor prevents higher quality output. …
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In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste … Tribes) have, as one would expect, substantially lower wealth than the forward" caste groups, while the Other Backward … Classes and non-Hindus occupy positions in the middle. Using the ANOGI decomposition technique, we estimate that between-caste …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and …
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Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318344