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China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World Values Survey data depicts China to be a high-trust, achievement oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures of rampant corruption and abuses of power. I argue that...
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Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority … students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …
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the candidate and in the second case, executives who support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …
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This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially excluded ethnic minorities. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for unsanctioned births, we show that more stringent enforcement of the birth control...
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second step, we relate the sign of the impact of a denomination in a country to whether the denomination is a minority in … that country. We find that denominations that are a minority in a country are more likely to be associated with a higher … of denominations on educational outcomes. The finding of the second step is moreover robust to defining minority …
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between either bribing only the majority and accepting the monitoring of the minority, or alternatively, bribing also the … minority, which gives up to its control role and increases the probability of success of the illicit action. Minorities can …
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