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Good jobs, good tenants? : field evidence of racial and gender discrimination in the UK's housing market
Huang, Andrew H.; Bao, Helen - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448220
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Race and the income-achievement gap
Bacic, Ryan; Zheng, Angela - 2023
We study whether racial disparities in economic opportunity appear at an early age. Using administrative education data linked to tax records, we study the income-achievement gap across different races and find important variation. The income-achievement gap is small for East Asian children...
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Public investment under ethnic diversity and political uncertainty
Bohn, Frank (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002542562
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The politics of ethnic identity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Green, Elliott - 2017
in non-democracies. Coupled with evidence on the role of incentives in driving ethnic identity change, I propose that a … change in the ethnic identity of presidents in non-democracies should lead to ethnic switching among citizens towards the new … ethnic identity of the President leads to a shift of women identifying with the new ruling ethnic group of around 1.5% of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261916
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Ethnic favouritism in Kenyan education reconsidered: when a picture is worth more than a thousand regressions
Simson, Rebecca; Green, Elliott - 2019
Does the leader’s ethnicity affect the regional distribution of basic services such as education in Africa? Several influential studies have argued in the affirmative, by using educational attainment levels to show that children who share the ethnicity of the president during their school-aged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261932
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Political cleavages in motion : Bolivia in 2021
Bonifaz Moreno, Gustavo; Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2022
We analyze recent developments in Bolivia's politics through the lens of political cleavage theory, in particular cleavage displacement. Bolivia's current party system is characterized by a stable and dominant MAS at one end of the spectrum, and at the other a fractious, unstable collection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279262
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How important are personal ties, trust and tolerance for life satisfaction in Europe?
Crowley, Frank; Walsh, Edel - 2018
incorporates three key dimensions of personal social capital; (i) structural (personal ties), (ii) cognitive (trust) and (iii … argue that tolerance acts as a bridging mechanism between trust and ties in affecting overall wellbeing. Using ordered … improves life satisfaction. Of the social capital indicators, we find that trust in institutions has the largest marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020044
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Ready for revolution? : the English economy before 1800
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014
Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively...
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Catastrophic natural disasters and economic growth
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Galiani, Sebastián; Noy, Ilan; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003995614
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Between a rock and a hard place : a new perspective on the resource curse
Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012598776