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two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
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side demands votes and each demand enough votes to alone control a majority. The probability of a minority victory is … independent of the size of the minority and converges to one half, for any minority size, when the electorate is arbitrarily large …
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suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
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Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
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Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...
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elasticity of money demand owe more to a faulty methodology than to the data. …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half …
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1973 and 1995. We find robust evidence of bias against minority defendants who killed white victims: in Direct Appeal and … Habeas Corpus the probability of error in these cases is 3 and 9 percentage points higher, respectively, than for minority … defendants who killed minority victims. …
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