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Reducing prejudice through actual and imagined contact : a field experiment with Malawian shopkeepers and Chinese immigrants
Gu, Jun; Mueller, Annika; Nielsen, Ingrid; Shachat, Jason M. - 2015
We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate the effect of in-group bias on economic outcomes. Specifically, we employ randomized experiments to test whether actual and imagined contact is effective in reducing prejudice between indigenous Malawian shopkeepers (in-group), and their...
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Improving intergroup relations through actual and imagined contact : field experiments with Malawian shopkeepers and Chinese migrants
Gu, Jun; Mueller, Annika; Nielsen, Ingrid; Shachat, Jason M. - In: Economic development and cultural change 68 (2019) 1, pp. 273-303
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Friendship network composition and subjective well-being
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - In: Oxford economic papers 72 (2020) 1, pp. 191-215
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Friendship network composition and subjective wellbeing
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2017
Using data from the UK Community Life Survey, we present the first study to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in one's friendship network and subjective wellbeing. We measure network heterogeneity by the extent to which one's friends are similar to oneself with regard to ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660075
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Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship : evidence from Australian communities
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Hayward, Mathew; Smyth, Russell; … - In: Journal of business venturing 38 (2023) 2, pp. 1-17
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Decomposing the effect of height on income in China: The role of market and political channels
Yamamura, Eiji; Smyth, Russell; Zhang, Yan - 2015
investigates the channels through which height influences income in China. Our first key finding is that taller people are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421501
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Childhood Adversity and Energy Poverty
Cheng, Zhiming; Guo, Liwen; Smyth, Russell; Tani, … - 2021
We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great …
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China's business reforms: Institutional challenges in a globalized economy
Smyth, Russell (contributor); Tam, On-kit (contributor);  … - 2005
China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign … enterprises in China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now … its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has further accelerated its market-oriented economic reforms. China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990575
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Do Migrant Students Affect Local Students' Academic Achievements in Urban China?
Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell - 2017
middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of … in China about the inclusion of migrant students in urban schools, and for the assignment of educational resources across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731457
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China: privatisation and enterprise restructuring in a socialist market economy
Smyth, Russell - In: Business in Asia, (pp. 71-85). 2008
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