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Minority groups and success in election primaries
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810012
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Minority groups and success in election primaries
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131239
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Shifting punishment on minorities: experimental evidence of scapegoating
Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2021
This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596355
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The Impact of Immigration on the Size of Government : Empirical Evidence from Danish Municipalities
Gerdes, Christer - 2009
This study examines whether the influx of immigrants from countries outside the EU and OECD into Danish municipalities affected the amount of public spending between 1995 and 2001, a period marked by an unprecedented rise in the number of asylum applicants. Such an unexpected demographic change,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205246
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Segregation and Black Political Efficacy
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Washington, Ebonya - 2007
We find that exogenous increases in segregation lead to decreases in Black civic efficacy, as measured by an ability to elect Representatives who vote liberally and more specifically in favor of legislation that is favored by Blacks. This tendency for Representatives from more segregated MSAs to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222871
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Lending a Hand : How Small Black Businesses Supported the Civil Rights Movement
Ferleger, Louis; Lavallee, Matthew - 2018
movement’s success. Many black-owned businesses operated across the South because they provided goods and services to black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116144
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Politics at Work
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar; Teso, Edoardo - 2022
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081497
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The Early Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in the US : An Analysis of the Growth of the NAACP
Aaronson, Daniel; Abner, Jala; Borgschulte, Mark; … - 2022
We document the growth of the NAACP’s local branches from just after its inception to the middle of the 20th century using digitized records from the organization’s archives. We identify some key correlates of county-level activity, concentrating specifically on the explosive growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082264
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Immigration and Electoral Outcomes : Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082391
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Power Shifts, Emigration, and Population Sorting
Aklin, Michaël; Eichenauer, Vera - 2022
We investigate the consequences of a peaceful shift of power from one social group to another. Theoretically, we show that an individual’s decision to stay put or migrate depends on the difference between the political preferences of groups and the change in tax. Empirically, we use the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083045