Search Results - subject:"ethnicity"

Social structure and conflict : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Moscona, Jacob; Nunn, Nathan; Robinson, James A. - 2018

Parental education better helps white than black families escape poverty : national survey of children’s health

Assari, Shervin - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14

According to the Blacks’ Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are systemically smaller for Black compared to White families. One hypothesis is that due to the existing structural racism that encompasses residential segregation, low quality of...

Legal empowerment and group-based inequality

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018

Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...

Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds : an experiment in Xinjiang, China

Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018

find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and …

Social structure and conflict : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Moscona, Jacob; Nunn, Nathan; Robinson, James A. - 2018

Transnational social mobility of minorities : a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one’s home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to the distinct mechanisms pertaining to immigrants who were minorities in the source...

Sanctioning and trustworthiness across ethnic groups : experimental evidence from Afghanistan

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Levely, Ian - 2018

We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...

Asian segregation and scholastic achievement : evidence from primary schools in New York City

D'Este, Rocco; Einiö, Elias - 2018

This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...

Fading hope and the rise in inequality in the United States

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Eurasian business review 8 (2018) 1, pp. 1-12

A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in Western industrial countries such as the United States (US) would lead to increasing tensions between different socio-economic groups which might in turn hamper economic growth. The population’s...

Earnings polarization, ethnicity, and regional perspective in Indonesia

Muttaqien, Arip; Sologon, Denisa; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2018

Recently, quantitative methods have been increasingly used in ethnicity research, which traditionally has relied mainly … on qualitative methods. However, quantitative studies on ethnicity in Indonesia are scarce, even though the country has … results show that regional characteristics are more important than ethnicity. Finally, ethnicity becomes not significant …