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Copyright Piracy and Development : United States Evidence in the Nineteenth Century
Khan, B. Zorina - 2008
Does the lack of international copyrights benefit or harm developing countries? This article examines the effects of U.S. copyright piracy during a period when the U.S. was a developing country. U.S. statutes protected the copyrights of American citizens from 1790, but until 1891 deemed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770853
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Black Reparations and Child Well-Being : A Framework and Policy Considerations
Gennetian, Lisa A.; Gibson-Davis, Christina M.; Darity, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
developmental systems to illustrate the multilayered aspects of harm from the legacy of slavery and racism. Our curation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072873
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274587
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Does Culture Matter?
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of … development among others. -- culture ; beliefs ; preferences ; norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810107
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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why. We start from the "standard" view that immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517877
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The seeds of ideology : historical immigration and political preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola; Tabellini, Marco - 2020
We study the long run effects of immigration on U.S. political ideology. We establish a new result: historical European immigration is associated with stronger preferences for redistribution and a more liberal ideology among Americans today. We hypothesize that European immigrants moving to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244207
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The seeds of ideology : historical immigration and political preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola; Tabellini, Marco - 2020
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare state, and that this had a long-lasting effect on the political ideology of US born individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226388
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Racial heterogeneity in the U.S. structural transformation and regional convergence
Kim, Minki; Lee, Munseob - 2023
Structural transformation and regional convergence in U.S. income have been long-standing trends. Caselli and Coleman (2001) discovered that 60% of regional convergence between the U.S. South and North from 1940 to 1990 is due to structural transformation. Our replication confirms these robust...
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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472550
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Cultural diversity, discrimination, and economic outcomes : an experimental analysis
Ferraro, Paul J.; Cummings, Ronald G. - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 45 (2007) 2, pp. 217-232
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