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Emotional well-being in South African migrants
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Effects of migration on Black South Africans' mental health
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Julia Behrman, Northwestern University
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Point of reference: A multi-sited exploration of African migration and fertility in France
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Climate change is not a simplistic comparison of apartheid but entails global cooperation to deal with it
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Alok Bhargava responds to Desmond Tutu's Comparison of Climate Change as Developed Countries' "Climate Apartheid" On the Poor
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Alok Bhargava featured in Financial Times on Climate Change
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Climate change is not a simplistic comparison of apartheid but entails global cooperation to deal with it
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Trust and cooperative behavior: Evidence from the realm of data-sharing
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Trust is praised by many social scientists as the foundation of functioning social systems owing to its assumed connection to cooperative behavior. The existence of such a link is still subject to debate. In the present study, we first highlight important conceptual issues within this debate. Second, we examine previous evidence, highlighting several issues. Third, we present findings from an original experiment, in which we tried to identify a “real” situation that allowed us to measure both trust and cooperation. People’s expectations and behavior when they decide to share (or not) their data represents such a situation, and we make use of corresponding data. We found that there is no relationship between trust and cooperation. This non-relationship may be rationalized in different ways which, in turn, provides important lessons for the study of the trust—behavior nexus beyond the particular situation we study empirically.
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Frauke Kreuter, Ph.D.
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Frauke Kreuter Publications
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Michael Bader, American University and Visiting Scholar
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Segregation in Place: Estimating the Contribution of White Flight to Racial Segregation in the 21st Century
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MPRC Seed Grant funding increased
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New maximum of $20,000
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Trauma and resilience among Central American immigrant adolescents and their families
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Amy L. Lewin, Kevin Roy, Family Science, individual and structural inequalities deriving from traumatic experiences among immigrant Latino youth
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Philip Cohen comments on birth rate anxiety
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Less Sex, Fewer Babies, Blame - no, wait . . .
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International organizations and the political economy of reforms
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We develop a simple dynamic model of policy reform that captures some of the determinants that underlie the differences between the reform paths taken by a number of countries since the early 1990s. The model focuses on the interaction between domestic institutions and international organizations that promote reform, on the one hand, and the political incentives for reversing reforms, on the other. At equilibrium, there are three types of reform paths. A country can undergo a full-scale, lasting reform, can carry out a partial but lasting reform, or can go through cycles of reforms and costly counter-reforms. Domestic institutions, along with the incentives provided by international organizations, determine the equilibrium path. A politically myopic international organization may induce cycles of reforms and costly counter-reforms, thereby reducing the country's well-being. An international organization that only provides funds to promote reforms may have a less beneficial effect than one that assists the country with fresh funds to defend reforms when there is a risk of reversal. International funds that promote reforms can also influence domestic institutions. For example, due to the intervention of an international organization, countries could have incentives to dismantle institutions that build up reversal cost and/or do not fully build their fiscal capacity.
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Sebastian Galiani, Ph.D.
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Sebastian Galiani Publications