Search Results - "Laitin, David D"

Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration by Harder, Niklas, Figueroa, Lucila, Gillum, Rachel M., Hangartner, Dominik, Laitin, David D., Hainmueller, Jens

“…The successful integration of immigrants into a host country’s society, economy, and polity has become a major issue for policymakers in recent decades…”
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Religion, terrorism and public goods: Testing the club model by Berman, Eli, Laitin, David D.

“…Can rational models, once theological explanations are discredited, explain why certain radical religious rebels are so successful in perpetrating suicide…”
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Identifying barriers to Muslim integration in France by Adida, Claire L., Laitin, David D., Valfort, Marie-Anne

“…Is there a Muslim disadvantage in economic integration for second-generation immigrants to Europe? Previous research has failed to isolate the effect that…”
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A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change by GREIF, AVNER, LAITIN, DAVID D.

“…This paper asks (a) why and how institutions change, (b) how an institution persists in a changing environment, and (c) how processes that it unleashes lead to…”
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Geographic axes and the persistence of cultural diversity by Laitin, David D, Moortgat, Joachim, Robinson, Amanda Lea

“…Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel [Diamond J, (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel (WW Norton, NY)] has provided a scientific foundation for answering basic…”
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Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity by Fearon, James D., Laitin, David D.

“…We examine the theoretical implications of the observation that ethnic identities are socially constructed for explaining ethnic violence, distinguishing…”
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Explaining Interethnic Cooperation by Fearon, James D., Laitin, David D.

“…Though both journalists and the academic literature on ethnic conflict give the opposite impression, peaceful and even cooperative relations between ethnic…”
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The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation by Algan, Yann, Hémet, Camille, Laitin, David D.

“…Relying on diversity measures computed at the apartment block level under conditions of exogenous allocation of public housing in France, this paper identifies…”
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Ethnic and Nationalist Violence by Brubaker, Rogers, Laitin, David D.

“…Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely non-intersecting literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and studies of political…”
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Linguistic diversity, official language choice and human capital by Laitin, David D., Ramachandran, Rajesh

“…The mechanisms linking high ethnic fractionalization (ELF) to poor economic outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa remain obscure. This paper proposes that high ELF…”
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Language Policy and Human Development by LAITIN, DAVID D., RAMACHANDRAN, RAJESH

“…This article explores how language policy affects the socioeconomic development of nation states through two channels: the individual’s exposure to and (in…”
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A randomized controlled design reveals barriers to citizenship for low-income immigrants by Hainmueller, Jens, Lawrence, Duncan, Gest, Justin, Hotard, Michael, Koslowski, Rey, Laitin, David D.

“…Citizenship endows legal protections and is associated with economic and social gains for immigrants and their communities. In the United States, however,…”
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Children in Immigrant Families Deserve Health Care by Mendoza, Fernando S., Sanders, Lee, Laitin, David D.

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Immigration into Europe: Economic Discrimination, Violence, and Public Policy by Dancygier, Rafaela M, Laitin, David D

“…Immigration has irreversibly changed Western European demographics over the past generation. This article reviews recent research drawing implications of this…”
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Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health by Hainmueller, Jens, Lawrence, Duncan, Martén, Linna, Black, Bernard, Figueroa, Lucila, Hotard, Michael, Jiménez, Tomás R., Mendoza, Fernando, Rodriguez, Maria I., Swartz, Jonas J., Laitin, David D.

“…The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these…”
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Standardizing the fee-waiver application increased naturalization rates of low-income immigrants by Yasenov, Vasil, Hotard, Michael, Lawrence, Duncan, Hainmueller, Jens, Laitin, David D.

“…Citizenship can accelerate immigrant integration and result in benefits for both local communities and the foreign-born themselves. Yet the majority of…”
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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War by FEARON, JAMES D., LAITIN, DAVID D.

“…An influential conventional wisdom holds that civil wars proliferated rapidly with the end of the Cold War and that the root cause of many or most of these has…”
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Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War by Fearon, James D., Laitin, David D.

“…In nearly a third of ethnic civil wars since 1945, the conflict develops between members of a regional ethnic group that considers itself to be the indigenous…”
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Additional Annual Meeting ‘18 Highlights: National Academy of Sciences Meeting Report by Laitin, David D.

“…In this article, Skip asks “What do we know about the motivations of the people who pay for the research, teaching, and public service that social scientists…”
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Reporting all results efficiently: A RARE proposal to open up the file drawer by Laitin, David D., Miguel, Edward, Alrababa’h, Ala’, Bogdanoski, Aleksandar, Grant, Sean, Hoeberling, Katherine, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, Moore, Don A., Vazire, Simine, Weinstein, Jeremy, Williamson, Scott

“…While the social sciences have made impressive progress in adopting transparent research practices that facilitate verification, replication, and reuse of…”
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