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Ethnic favoritism : an axiom of politics?
De Luca, Giacomo; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479931
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Ethnic Favoritism : An Axiom of Politics?
De Luca, Giacomo - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027085
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The Determinants of Islamophobia - An Empirical Analysis of the Swiss Minaret Referendum
Orlanski, Olga - 2018
We analyze the determinants of Islamophobia using the only nation-wide anti-Islam referendum ever, which was held in Switzerland in 2009 and led to the prohibition of minarets. We find economic, environmental, and cultural factors as well as the presence of Muslims to determine voting behavior....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930285
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The effect of far right parties on the location choice of immigrants : evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin; … - 2017
Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants has a substantial effect on the political views of the electorate,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625341
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The determinants of Islamophobia : an empirical analysis of the Swiss minaret referendum
Orlanski, Olga; Schulze, Günther G. - 2017
We analyze the determinants of Islamophobia using the only nation-wide anti-Islam referendum ever, which was held in Switzerland in 2009 and led to the prohibition of minarets. We find economic, environmental, and cultural factors as well as the presence of Muslims to determine voting behavior....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752312
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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John Henry; Haider, Steven - 2009
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832324
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Roma children in the transformational recession : widening ethnic schooling gap and Roma poverty in post-communist Hungary
Kertesi, Gábor (contributor); Kézdi, Gábor (contributor) - 2005
The Roma or "Gypsies" are Europe's largest and poorest ethnic minority. Nearly 80 per cent of them live in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Roma - Non-Roma educational gap, always substantial but slowly closing in the communist years, widened again after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435289
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Expected long-term budgetary benefits to Roma education in Hungary
Kertesi, Gábor (contributor); Kézdi, Gábor (contributor) - 2006
successful investment. It does no deal with how to achieve success. The motivating idea behind our analysis is the notion that … the success probabilities. For example, if an investment increases the chance of secondary school completion by 20 … are HUF 3.8M (19M/5). In other words, 3.8M per child investment would therefore break even with a 20% success rate. Even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435351
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A hátrányos helyzetű és roma fiatalok eljuttatása az érettségihez : egy különösen nagy hosszú távú költségvetési nyereséget biztosító befektetés
Kertesi, Gábor (contributor); Kézdi, Gábor (contributor) - 2006
successful investment. It does no deal with how to achieve success. The motivating idea behind our analysis is the notion that … the success probabilities. For example, if an investment increases the chance of secondary school completion by 20 … are HUF 3.8M (19M/5). In other words, 3.8M per child investment would therefore break even with a 20% success rate. Even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435355
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Who will be idol? : the importance of social networks for winning on reality shows
Heizler, Odelia; Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2010
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008689021