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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto; Stantcheva, Stefanie - 2022

This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...

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Populism and the Economics of Globalization

Rodrik, Dani - 2017

Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...

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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the Acs

Evans, William N. - 2017

Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...

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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Testing the Waters : Behavior Across Participant Pools

Snowberg, Erik - 2018

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population …, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the … external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in …

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Immigration and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto - 2018

We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how natives perceive immigrants and how these perceptions influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large misperceptions about the number and characteristics of immigrants: in all...

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The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America : Timing and Mechanisms

Fogel, Robert William - 2021

The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first wave of the decline and virtually none thereafter....

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Population and Regulation

Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

are more likely to have them. Consistent with the model, we find that higher population U.S. states have more pages of …. Overall, the data show that population is an empirically important determinant of regulation …

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