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Building human or criminal capital? : school peer effects on future offending
Larsen, Britt Østergaard; Kristensen, Nicolai - 2017
important and significant nonlinear peer effects. Students who enter a program with new peers who have a high crime propensity … education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a …
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Peer effects in prison
Johnsen, Julian; Khoury, Laura - 2024
Peer interactions play a key role in the criminal sector due to its secrecy and lack of formal institutions. A significant part of criminal peer exposure happens in prison, directly influenced by policymakers. This paper provides a broader understanding of how peer effects shape criminal...
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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India
Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016
Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the remainder of the population. We contribute to the literature on horizontal inequalities in India by looking within these...
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Social Diversity and Bridging Identity
García‐Alonso, María D. C. - 2020
We investigate within a model of cultural transmission how policies or shocks that affect social diversity within a population affect social cohesion and segregation. We develop the concept of `bridging identity', an individual trait that: (i) positively affects utility in culturally diverse...
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Social diversity and bridging identity
García-Alonso, María del Carmen; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
We investigate within a model of cultural transmission the conditions under which increased social diversity within a population - e.g. due to the inflow of immigrants - raise the potential for conflict as opposed to harmonious social diversity. Drawing on evidence from psychological studies, we...
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The role of social identity and perceived discrimination in human capital formation : evidence from India
Gupta, Isha - 2022
social discrimination is also found to be a significant contributor to the gaps in cognitive outcomes and parental investment … across social groups. While parents' perceived social discrimination is associated with lower parental investment throughout …
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Hate groups and hate crime
Ryan, Matt E.; Leeson, Peter T. - In: International review of law and economics 31 (2011) 4, pp. 256-262
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White supremacist groups and hate crime
Mulholland, Sean E. - In: Public choice 157 (2013) 1/2, pp. 91-113
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The Effect of Minority Peers on Future Arrest Quantity and Quality
Rivera, Roman - 2022
A common proposal to improve US policing is to increase minority representation in police departments. The net effect of such policies depends on the direct effect of the minority officers as well as their peer effect on others. I document the effect of minority peers in the Chicago police...
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Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism
Shayo, Moses; Zussman, Asaf - 2010
We study ingroup bias -- the preferential treatment of members of one's group -- in naturally occurring data, where economically significant allocation decisions are made under a strong non-discriminatory norm. Data come from Israeli small claims courts during 2000-2004, where the assignment of...
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