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作者:Nunn, Nathan; Wantchekon, Leonard
作者单位:Harvard University; New York University
摘要:We show that current differences in trust levels within Africa can be traced back to the transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. Combining contemporary individual-level survey data with historical data on slave shipments by ethnic group, we find that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade are less trusting today. Evidence from a variety of identification strategies suggests that the relationship is causal. Examining causal mechanisms, we show that most of t...
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作者:Azzimonti, Marina
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
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作者:Kok, Nils; McGraw, Marquise; Quigley, John M.
作者单位:Maastricht University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J.
作者单位:Stockholm School of Economics; New York University
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作者:Olszewski, Wojciech; Sandroni, Alvaro
作者单位:Northwestern University; Northwestern University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要:We examine Popper's falsifiability within an economic model in which a tester hires a potential expert to produce a theory. Payments are contingent on the performance of the theory vis-a-vis data. We show that if experts are strategic, falsifiability has no power to distinguish scientific theories from worthless theories. The failure of falsification in screening informed and uninformed experts motivates questions on the broader concepts of refutation and verification. We demonstrate an asymme...
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作者:Coile, Courtney C.; Levine, Phillip B.
作者单位:Wellesley College
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作者:Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Timmins, Christopher
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Duke University
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作者:MaCurdy, Thomas; Chen, Xiaohong; Hong, Han
作者单位:Stanford University; Yale University
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作者:Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Lutz, Byron F.
作者单位:Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
摘要:This paper examines the residential location and school choice responses to the desegregation of large urban public school districts. We decompose the well documented decline in white public enrollment following desegregation into migration to suburban districts and increased private school enrollment and find that migration was the more prevalent response. Desegregation caused black public enrollment to increase significantly outside of the South, mostly by slowing decentralization of black h...