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Like oil and water or chocolate and peanut butter? : ethnic diversity and social participation of young people in England
Fumagalli, Elena; Fumagalli, Laura - 2009
The paper studies the impact of ethnic diversity on social participation of young people. We first propose a theoretical model in which the agents choose between structured and unstructured social activities by taking into account the ethnic composition of the groups they join. We test our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824517
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Which factors explain the rising ethnic heterogeneity in Italy? : an empirical analysis at province level
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2014
The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336545
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The end of the European welfare states? : migration, ethnic diversity and public goods
Harmon, Nikolaj A. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466962
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Establishing cooperation between groups : ingroup versus outgroup punishment
Stoff, Christian (contributor) - 2006 - Revised: February 2006
We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma when members of one group are unable to target punishment towards individual defectors from the other group. We first show that indiscriminate outgroup punishment may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002521602
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Diversity and pluralism : an economist's view
Genovese, Nicola (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003365424
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Does diversity drive down trust?
Uslaner, Eric M. (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003366158
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Oil revenues, ethnic fragmentation and political transition of authoritarian regimes
Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2012
Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535530
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Barriers to immigrant assimilation evidence on grading bias in Ecuadorian high schools
Rangel, Marcos A.; Marotta, Luana; Van der Werf, Cynthia; … - 2024
We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529930
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Identity, homophily and in-group bias
Currarini, Sergio; Menge, Friederike - 2012
matching. -- In-Group Bias ; Homophily ; Endogenous Matching ; Experiments ; Game Theory … identity (in-group bias). While both phenomena involve some degree of discrimination towards others, a systematic study of … games with either an in-group or an out-group member. Wend strong evidence of in-group bias when agents are matched …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539289
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Diversity and discrimination in the classroom
Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024
-scale, incentivized lab-in-field-experiment based on the investment game, allowing us to assess the in-group bias of native German … students in their interactions with fellow natives (in-group) versus immigrants (out-group). We find in-group bias peaks in …
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