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Market segregation in the presence of customer discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023

sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves …

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Much ado about nothing? : the role of primary school catchment areas for ethnic school segregation ; evidence from a policy reform

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2013

ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we contribute to this debate by analyzing ethnic segregation before … and after the reform. We discuss drawbacks of commonly used segregation indices and their interpretation as well as … causality issues. Although there is an increase in segregation over the time period studied, our results show that segregation …

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Neighborhood racial characteristics, credit history, and bankcard credit in Indian country

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - 2015

We examine whether concerns about lenders' discrimination based on community racial characteristics can be empirically substantiated in the context of neighborhoods on and near American Indian reservations. Drawing on a large-scale dataset consisting of individual-level credit bureau records, we...

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Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes : evidence from race-blind magnet school lotteries

Cook, Jason - 2018

. Segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after attending more … segregated schools. Ultimately, mandated segregation decreases student test scores and college attendance. …

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The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes : an analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program

Setren, Elizabeth - 2025

Over sixty years following Brown vs. Board of Education, racial and socioeconomic segregation and lack of equal access …

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The intricacy of adapting to climate change : flood protection as a local public goods game

Bondarev, Anton; Hintermann, Beat; Krysiak, Frank C.; … - 2017

We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer, and the presence and nature of spillovers to...

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Ethnic fractionalization, governance and loan defaults in Africa

Andrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, … - 2014

We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the quality of governance) and the degree of market...

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Racial group affinity and religious giving : evidence from congregation-level panel data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - 2014

Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...

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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...

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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...

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