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Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks' Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting

Washington, Ebonya - 2011

Conventional wisdom and empirical academic research conclude that majority Black districts decrease Black representation by increasing conservatism in Congress. However, this research generally suffers from three limitations: 1) too low a level of aggregation 2) lack of a counterfactual and 3)...

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Minority Turnout and Representation Under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment

Casella, Alessandra; Guo, Jeffrey; Jiang, Michelle - 2023

Under majoritarian election systems, securing participation and representation of minorities remains an open problem, made salient in the US by its history of voter suppression. One remedy recommended by the courts is Cumulative Voting (CV): each voter has as many votes as open positions and can...

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Media Markets and Localism : Does Local News En Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

Waldfogel, Joel - 2021

Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, a globalized information and...

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Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S

Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent - 2022

We measure the overall influence of contextual versus individual factors (e.g., voting rules and media as opposed to race and education) on voter behavior, and explore underlying mechanisms. Using a U.S.-wide voter-level panel, 2008–18, we examine voters who relocate across state and county...

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Israel's Immigration Story : Winners and Losers

Razin, Assaf - 2018

The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large …

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Israel's Immigration Story : Globalization Lessons

Razin, Assaf - 2017

The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has …

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Private and Social Incentives for Fertility : Israeli Puzzles

Manski, Charles F.; Mayshar, Joram - 2021

puzzling mix of trends. Completed fertility has decreased sharply in some ethnic-religious groups (Mizrahi Jews and non …-Bedouin Arabs) and increased moderately in other groups (non-ultra-orthodox Ashkenazi and Israeli-born Jews). In a phenomenon that … per women) among ultra-orthodox Ashkenazi and Israeli-born Jews. This paper explores how private and social incentives for …

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Social Structure and Development : A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia

Acemoglu, Daron; Hassan, Tarek A.; Robinson, James Alan - 2010

We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust …. Before World War II, Russian Jews were predominantly in white collar (middle class) occupations and the Holocaust appears to …

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Married to Intolerance : Attitudes Towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006

Voigtländer, Nico - 2013

towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our empirical analysis also cautions against using intermarriage as a …

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Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground : An Economist'S View of Radical Religious Militias

Berman, Eli - 2021

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hama and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of...

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