Participation in Heterogeneous Communities
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...Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara PUBLIC POLICY ISSN 0265-8003...
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...As we discuss below one has to be cautious in over interpreting …ndings based upon a survey question that may be understood di¤erently by various respondents, as pointed out by Glaeser et al (2000)....
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...Having established such microfoundations, we then move to analyze the impact of diversity on policies and productivity through a simple reduced-form model....
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...On the effects of positive spillovers in the transmission of human capital, see Romer [1986], Lucas [1988J, and Benabou [19961. On trust see La Porta et al [19971. 4. For theoretical work on the effects of transmission of information in group and informational cascades, see, for instance. Banerjee [19921 and Ellison and Fudenberg 11995]. An early empirical contribution on the importance of networks is Case and Katz [1991]. 5. See Verba and Nie [1987] and Verba, Schlozman, and Brady [1995]. 6. Even though participation is typically associated witb "positive" socioeconomic outcomes, social networks may also transmit "negative" norms. For example, the so-called "culture of poverty and welfare" may find its roots in social networks propagating incentives to search for welfare rather than vifork. See, in particular, Cutler and Glaeser [1997[ and Bertrand, Luttmer, and Mullainathan [2000] for recent empirical work on this important question....
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...On the effects of positive spillovers in the transmission of human capital, see Romer [1986], Lucas [1988J, and Benabou [19961. On trust see La Porta et al [19971. 4. For theoretical work on the effects of transmission of information in group and informational cascades, see, for instance. Banerjee [19921 and Ellison and Fudenberg 11995]. An early empirical contribution on the importance of networks is Case and Katz [1991]. 5....
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...On the effects of positive spillovers in the transmission of human capital, see Romer [1986], Lucas [1988J, and Benabou [19961. On trust see La Porta et al [19971. 4. For theoretical work on the effects of transmission of information in group and informational cascades, see, for instance. Banerjee [19921 and Ellison and Fudenberg 11995]. An early empirical contribution on the importance of networks is Case and Katz [1991]. 5. See Verba and Nie [1987] and Verba, Schlozman, and Brady [1995]....
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...On the effects of positive spillovers in the transmission of human capital, see Romer [1986], Lucas [1988J, and Benabou [19961. On trust see La Porta et al [19971. 4. For theoretical work on the effects of transmission of information in group and informational cascades, see, for instance. Banerjee [19921 and Ellison and Fudenberg 11995]. An early empirical contribution on the importance of networks is Case and Katz [1991]. 5. See Verba and Nie [1987] and Verba, Schlozman, and Brady [1995]. 6....
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