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Social Ties and the Selection of China’s Political Elite
The American Economic Review, 2020 We study how sharing a hometown or college connection with an incumbent member of China’s Politburo affects a candidate’s likelihood of selection as a new member.
R. Fisman +3 more
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Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #Econtwitter
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. We created 80 bot accounts that claim to be PhD students differing in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and ...
Nicolás Ajzenman +2 more
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The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV
The American Economic Review, 2019 We study the political impact of commercial television in Italy exploiting the staggered introduction of Berlusconi’s private TV network, Mediaset, in the early 1980s.
Ruben Durante, P. Pinotti, A. Tesei
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The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper shows that schools can foster the transmission of civic virtues by helping students to develop concrete, democratically chosen, collective projects. We draw on an RCT implemented in 200 middle schools in three countries.
S. Briole +5 more
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Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Social Science Research NetworkWe study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics
Sascha O. Becker +3 more
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The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
Social Science Research Network, 2019 Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’ social interactions with their managers can be advantageous for their careers, and that this phenomenon ...
Zoe Cullen, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 Social interactions may explain the large variance in criminal activity across neighborhoods and time. We present direct evidence of social spillovers in crime using random variation in neighborhood residence along opposite sides of a newly drawn school ...
Stephen B. Billings +2 more
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The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa
The American Economic Review, 2018 Between 1921 and 1956, French colonial governments organized medical campaigns to treat and prevent sleeping sickness. Villagers were forcibly examined and injected with medications with severe, sometimes fatal, side effects.
Sara Lowes, E. Montero
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Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsWe show that history stored in collective memories and activated by political campaigns can create xenophobia and radicalization. Turkish troops besieged Vienna in 1529 and 1683 and pillaged individual Austrian villages, killing and kidnapping in the ...
Christian Ochsner, Felix Roesel
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