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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Anticipated Gender Discrimination and Grade Disclosure

Lepage, Louis Pierre; Li, Xiaomeng; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

distort incentives to mask across gender. Consistent with the framework, a survey reveals that students anticipate that female … sizable fraction of the gender gap in masking …

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Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students

Cortés, Patricia; French, Jacob; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We assess the role of information gaps in understanding gender differences in negotiation behavior by conducting a …. Prior to starting their job search, treated students were provided with objective information about the gender gap in … information. Further, we find some evidence that gender-specific treatment spillovers likely contribute to the smaller average …

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Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S

Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in …

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Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap

Exley, Christine L.; Fisman, Raymond; Kessler, Judd B.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-19 pandemic. Across both institutions, we observe a significant and substantial gender concealment gap: women are less …

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Fertility and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto - 2011

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....

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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …

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Nation Building

Alesina, Alberto - 2013

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences and can communicate with each other. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language, building infrastructure for easier travel, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures...

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The Determinants of Trust

Alesina, Alberto - 2000

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...

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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that...

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