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Diversity and local public goods: a natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation
Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic diversity on social relationships and the quality of public spaces at a very finite neighborhood level. We use detailed block level data on diversity and housing quality from a representative survey on housing in France. We show how and to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010615376
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892187
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703557
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124005
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach
Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756943
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The social effects of ethnic diversity at the local level : a natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation
Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - In: Journal of political economy 124 (2016) 3, pp. 696-733
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560150
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Teaching practices and social capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286875
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Social attitudes and economic development: an epidemiological approach
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2007
. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268264
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Can policy interact with culture? Minimum wage and the quality of labor relations
Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2008
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268716
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Trust and Growth
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 521-549
This article surveys recent research on the relationship between trust and growth. It documents the strong … international and interregional heterogeneity of trust. The theoretical mechanisms that explain the influence of trust on economic … performance and the empirical methods used to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822959