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Violent conflict is sometimes believed to provoke discrimination, but sometimes also seen to reduce pro-sociality in … general. While discrimination may reinforce conflict, a lack of pro-sociality hinders peace reconciliation, social capital … not find evidence for discrimination against out-group members. Instead, pro-sociality is significantly reduced if …
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This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This … suggests that market competition can eliminate the discrimination of wholesale buyers. …
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How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (first-hand) experience with conflict induces parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through...
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A large literature on African economies argues that ethnicity plays a role in the politics and economics of African countries. Unfortunately, much of this literature is speculative or anecdotal because of the lack of data, with the exception of a few papers that examine ethnic networking as a...
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and discrimination? How legitimate are claims arguing migrants are economically discriminated because they don't integrate … economic discrimination and cultural differences (cultural distance), the findings of this paper show that, at the aggregate … level, population groups facing higher economic discrimination are culturally more distant from the natives. Muslim …
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In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women...
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This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social-psychological mechanisms of 'externalization' and 'internalization' to understand the possible consequences of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative...
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-generational prosperity, but also the linked phenomenon of discrimination. This paper examines whether caste-based differences in access to … formal agricultural loans reflect discrimination in banks' lending. We find, first, that there are significant caste …
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Dieser Beitrag untersucht, ob Vornamen den Erfolg von Marktteilnehmern beeinflussen. Dazu wurden für 12 fiktive Testpersonen Kleinanzeigen auf dem Beziehungs-, Nachhilfe- und Wohnungsmarkt geschaltet und es wurde die Anzahl der kontaktierenden Personen erfasst. Ceteris paribus attrahierten...
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Lütkenhöner (2011) konzipierte Feldexperimente, mit denen untersucht wurde, ob Vornamen den Erfolg von Marktteilnehmern beeinflussen. Dabei wurden für 12 fiktive Personen Kleinanzeigen auf dem Beziehungs-, Nachhilfe- und Wohnungsmarkt geschaltet. Bei der ersten Auswertung von 2011 wurde...
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