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This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
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communities are usually more affected, especially in low-income countries. Among them, women but particularly indigenous groups in … indigenous women. Our results show that overall indigenous women are the group most severely affected by droughts, decreasing …
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We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest logging and maintaining forests as reindeer pastures for indigenous people. We use a detailed model that simultaneously includes timber production, carbon storage in living...
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Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …
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We conduct a discrete choice experiment with leaders of a random sample of 164 Peruvian indigenous communities (ICs) - to our knowledge, the first use of rigorous stated preference methods to analyze land titling. We find that: (i) on average, IC leaders are willing to pay US$35,000-45,000 for a...
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sports markets have largely been neglected so far in this kind of research although they possess the characteristics of … multisided markets. We contribute to filling this gap by describing the platform elements of professional suppliers of sports … add to the existing knowledge. Among these problems are integrative pricing strategies of sports clubs towards such …
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