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Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War
, 2015 Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent years have also witnessed large-scale efforts to combat trafficking, spearheaded by Mexico's conservative PAN party.
Melissa Dell
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Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning
, 2009 New ideas, products, and practices take time to diffuse, a fact that is often attributed to some form of heterogeneity among potential adopters. This paper examines three broad classes of diffusion models -- contagion, social influence, and social ...
Joshua Epstein +8 more
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Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify the persistent effect of protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into participation in an antiauthoritarian protest.
Leonardo Bursztyn +12 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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Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023 We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions in early adulthood on preferences, beliefs, and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations throughout ...
Manuel Bagues, Christopher Roth
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The American Economic Review, 2022 A childhood intervention to improve the social skills and self-control of at-risk kindergarten boys in the 1980s had positive impacts over the life course: higher trust and self-control as adolescents; increased social group membership, education, and ...
Y. Algan +5 more
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How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best Response Dynamics
, 2012 We examine how the speed of learning and best-response processes depends on homophily: the tendency of agents to associate disproportionately with those having similar traits.
B. Golub, M. Jackson
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Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?
, 2008 In his seminal 1970 book, The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss argued that monetary compensation for donating blood might crowd out the supply of blood donors. To test this claim we carried out a field experiment with three different treatments. In the
C. Mellström, M. Johannesson
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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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Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict
Social Science Research NetworkEthnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict, while others do not? I show that civil conflict in Africa is explained by ethnic groups’ cultural distance to the central government: an increase in ...
Eleonora Guarnieri
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