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Bardhan, Pranab K.; Lucas, Michale; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - 2014

This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions...

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Speaking of corporate social responsibility

Liang, Hao; Marquis, Christopher; Renneboog, Luc; Sun, Li - 2014

We examine how international variation in corporate future-oriented behavior, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) and research and development (R&D) investment, could partially stem from characteristics of the languages spoken at firms. We develop a future-time framing perspective...

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Legislators' response to changes in the rlectorate : the great migration and civil rights

Calderon, Alvaro; Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2019

, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement … in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This paper shows that the Great Migration and support for civil rights … Migration increased support for the Democratic Party and encouraged pro-civil rights activism in northern and western counties …

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Industrial change, the boundary of the firm, and racial employment segregation

Ferguson, John-Paul; Koning, Rembrand - 2019

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Changing in-group boundaries : the effect of immigration on race relations in the US

Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Shom; Tabellini, Marco; … - 2020

How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new out-group change the in-group's perceptions of other out-groups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of other minorities when the...

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Discrimination, disenfranchisement and African American WWII military enlistment

Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco - 2020

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Happily ever after : immigration, natives' marriage, and fertility

Carlana, Michela; Tabellini, Marco - 2019 - This Version: March 2019

We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and 1930 using a shift-share design. We find that natives living in cities that received more immigrants were more likely to marry, have kids, and leave the parental house...

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The value of advice : evidence from mobile phone-based agricultural extension

Cole, Shawn; Fernando, A. Nilesh - 2012

Mobile phones promise to bring the ICT revolution to previously unconnected populations. A two- year study evaluates an innovative voice-based ICT advisory service for smallholder cotton farmers in India, demonstrating significant demand for, and trust in, new information. Farmers substantially...

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Digitizing disclosure : the case of restaurant hygiene scores

Dai, Weijia; Luca, Michael - 2018

Collaborating with Yelp and the City of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by evaluating and helping to redesign the posting of restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp.com. We implement a two-stage intervention that separately identifies consumer response to...

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Entrepreneurship in the natural food and beauty categories before 2000 : global visions and local expressions

Jones, Geoffrey - 2012

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