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Several scholars have concluded that ethnic diversity has negative consequences for social trust. However, recent research has called into question whether ethnic diversity per se has detrimental effects, or whether lower levels of trust in diverse communities simply reflect a higher...
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question of why ethnicity matters, we identify three families of mechanisms -- what we term preference, technology, and … these mechanisms in isolation and then to compare the importance of ethnicity in each. Results from experimental games … altruism toward co-ethnics, or for an impact of shared ethnicity on the productivity of teams"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft …
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We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results...
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question of why ethnicity matters, we identify three families of mechanisms - what we term preference, technology, and strategy … mechanisms in isolation and then to compare the importance of ethnicity in each. Results from experimental games conducted with a …-ethnics, or for an impact of shared ethnicity on the productivity of teams …
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We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results...
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Social scientists often attribute moderation of the political salience of ethnicity in ethnically diverse societies to … the presence of cross-cutting cleavages - that is, to dimensions of identity or interest along which members of the same … this article, we present experimental results that help explain why ethnicity has a relatively minor political role in Mali …
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Civic ("sociotropic") concerns are a main source of public opposition to immigration. Yet whether such concerns stem from ethnic biases remains contested because research consistently focuses on native attitudes toward outgroup members. This lack of variation in intergroup relations limits...
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