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Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies

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MB Mulder, S Bowles, T Hertz, A Bell, J Beise… - science, 2009 - sciencemag.org
Abstract Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian
ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this
variation in inequality using a dynamic model in which a population's long-run steady- ...
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Economic Effects of a Citywide Minimum Wage, The

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A Dube, S Naidu… - Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
$9.14 by 2007. Compared to earlier benchmark studies by Card and Krueger and by
Neumark and Wascher, this study surveys table-service as well as fast-food restaurants,
includes more control groups, and collects data for more outcomes. The authors find that ...
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Economic determinants of land invasions

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FD Hidalgo, S Naidu, S Nichter… - The Review of Economics …, 2010 - MIT Press
Abstract This study estimates the effect of economic conditions on redistributive conflict. We
examine land invasions in Brazil using a panel data set with over 50,000 municipality-year
observations. Adverse economic shocks, instrumented by rainfall, cause the rural poor to ...
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Coups, corporations, and classified information

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A Dube, E Kaplan… - 2011 - nber.org
We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of
partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups.
Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top- ...
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[PDF] Suffrage, schooling, and sorting in the post-bellum US south

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S Naidu - 2010 - tuvalu.santafe.edu
Abstract This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century
disenfranchisement of black citizens in the US South. Using adjacent county-pairs that
straddle state boundaries, I first examine the effect of voting restrictions on political ...
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Recruitment restrictions and labor markets: Evidence from the postbellum US South

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S Naidu - Journal of Labor Economics, 2010 - JSTOR
This article studies the effect of recruitment restrictions on mobility and wages in the
postbellum US South. I estimate the effects of criminal fines charged for
“enticement”(recruiting workers already under contract) on sharecropper mobility, tenancy ...
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Bases, Bullets and Ballots: the Effect of US Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia

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O Dube… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Does foreign military assistance strengthen or further weaken fragile states facing
internal conflict? We address this question by estimating how US military aid affects violence
and electoral participation in Colombia. We exploit the allocation of US military aid to ...
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[PDF] How green was my valley? Coercive contract enforcement in 19th century industrial Britain

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S Naidu… - 2009 - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract Under British Master and Servant law, employee breach of contract was a criminal
offense between 1351 and 1875, punishable by fines and imprisonment. We examine the
economic motivation behind employees' breach of contract, and its prosecution by ...
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[PDF] Institutional equilibrium selection by intentional idiosyncratic play

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S Naidu… - 2005 - leg.ufpr.br
Abstract We introduce intentional idiosyncratic play in a standard stochastic evolutionary
model of equilibrium selection, where the equilibria represent distributional conventions
between members of two classes. Intentional idiosyncratic play alters the standard ...
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Can a citywide minimum wage be an effective policy tool? Evidence from San Francisco

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A Dube, S Naidu… - … Working Paper No. iirwps-111-05, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We provide here the first study of the economic impacts of a citywide minimum
wage policy-San Francisco's adoption of a minimum wage of $8.50 in early 2004. To
estimate the effects of this policy we surveyed and compared medium and small ...
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[PDF] Equilibrium Selection by Intentional Idiosyncratic Play

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S Naidu… - 2005 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract We introduce intentional idiosyncratic play in a standard stochastic evolutionary
model of equilibrium selection in bargaining games. We define intentional mutations as rare
play of mixed strategies that are supported only on the set of strategies that would give the ...
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Evolutionary bargaining with intentional idiosyncratic play

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S Naidu, SH Hwang… - Economics Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
We study equilibrium selection in stochastic evolutionary bargaining games in which
idiosyncratic play is intentional instead of random. In contract games, the stochastically
stable state selected by intentional idiosyncratic play is the Nash bargain, rather than the ...
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[PDF] The price of fertility: marriage markets and family planning in Bangladesh

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R Arunachalam… - University of California, …, 2006 - wwwdocs.fce.unsw.edu.au
Abstract This paper considers the impact of family planning on dowry transfers. We construct
a model of the marriage market in which prospective mates anticipate the outcome of
intrahousehold bargaining over fertility. We show that as the price of contraception falls, ...
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[PDF] Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Invasions

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FD Hidalgo, S Naidu, S Nichter… - The Review of …, 2007 - npr.berkeley.edu
Abstract This study estimates the effect of economic conditions on redistributive conflict. We
examine land invasions in Brazil using a panel dataset with over 50,000 municipalityyear
observations. Adverse economic shocks, instrumented by rainfall, cause the rural poor to ...
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[PDF] Evolutionary Dynamics of Class Structures

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S Bowles… - Workshop on the Coevolution of Behaviors and …, 2005 - santafe.edu
Abstract We study the emergence and persistence of institutions governing the size of the
joint surplus and its distribution between two classes, and we identify conditions under
which efficient and/or egalitarian contractual conventions are likely to emerge and to ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Invasions.”

FD Hidalgo, S Naidu, S Nichter… - Review of Economics and Statistics
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[PDF] Persistent institutions

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S Bowles… - 2006 - tuvalu.santafe.edu
Abstract Economic institutions often persist over centuries, while transitions among
institutions are sometimes abrupt. While some institutional transitions are implemented as
the deliberate outcome of bargaining among a small number of elite groups, many are ...
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[PDF] Simple Microfoundations for Cobb-Douglas Matching Functions

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S Naidu - 2007 - tuvalu.santafe.edu
Abstract This paper derives a Cobb-Douglas matching function as the aggregate of the
number of matches made by each firm in a large economy using results from the theory of
heavy tail distributions. The model is then calibrated using the empirical distribution of firm ...
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Introduction: Economics and Occupy Wall Street

S Naidu - The Economists' Voice, 2012 - degruyter.com
Nonetheless, it has given the income distribution its “moment in the sun.” In a flip comment in
2008, I suggested to a Latin American colleague that the US was not likely to respond to an
economic crisis with a openly left-wing social movement. September 2011 thus surprised ...
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[CITATION] Essays in the Political Economy of Development

S Naidu - 2008 - University of California, Berkeley
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Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

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S Naidu… - 2011 - nber.org
British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until
1875. We develop a contracting model generating equilibrium contract breach and
prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine the effects of ...
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[PDF] An Evolutionary Approach to Institutional Persistence and Change

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S Bowles, S Naidu… - tuvalu.santafe.edu
Abstract Some institutional transitions are implemented as the deliberate outcome of
bargaining among a small number of groups, but many are more decentralized, with a large
number of private actors informally adopting new practices that are later confirmed by ...
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The Economic Impacts of a Citywide Minimum Wage

A Dube, S Naidu… - 2007 - ideas.repec.org
This paper presents the first study of the economic effects of a citywide minimum wage—
San Francisco’ s adoption of a minimum wage, set at $8.50 in 2004 and $9.14 by 2007.
Compared to earlier benchmark studies by Card and Krueger and by Neumark and ...
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[CITATION] Do Men Pay for Fertility? Marriage Market Effects of a Family Planning Experiment in Bangladesh

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[PDF] Contract Selection by Intentional Idiosyncratic Play

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S Naidu… - 2005 - tuvalu.santafe.edu
Abstract We introduce intentional idiosyncratic play in a standard stochastic evolutionary
model of equilibrium selection, where the equilibria represent distributional conventions
between members of two classes. We define intentional mutations as rare play of mixed ...
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[PDF] Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

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E Kaplan, A Dube… - 2008 - escholarship.org
Abstract: We estimate the impact of political coups and top-secret coup planning on asset
prices. We use declassified CIA documents and daily stock price data to estimate the effect
of private events on asset prices of partially nationalized US companies that stood to ...
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[PDF] When the Levee Breaks: Labor Mobility and Economic Development in the American South

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R Hornbeck… - 2012 - are.berkeley.edu
Abstract The availability of low-wage immobile labor may discourage economic
development. In the American South, post-bellum economic stagnation has been partially
attributed to white landowners' access to immobile low-wage black workers; indeed, ...
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[PDF] How Green Was My Valley? Labor Market Coercion in Late 19th Century Industrial Britain

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S Naidu… - 2009 - iga.ucdavis.edu
Abstract Master and Servant law allowed an employer to imprison or fine a worker for breach
of contract, including shirking or quitting before contract expiration. This paper examines the
economic motivation behind the criminal prosecutions of workers by employers under ...
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[PDF] The Evolution of Governance Conventions in Open-Source Projects

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S Naidu - 2005 - tuvalu.santafe.edu
Abstract I focus on the emergence of governance norms within Open-Source software
projects, arguing that they are neither anarchic nor authoritarian, but instead what some
anthropologists call” reverse-dominance” hierarchies, where community norms are ...
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[PDF] Intergenerational Mobility and Institutional Change in 20th Century China

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Y Chen, S Naidu… - 2010 - iga.ucdavis.edu
Abstract We study the connection between intergenerational economic mobility and
institutional change in 20th century China. Using a model of elites' investment in their
children, we show that elites may choose to reform institutions and reduce political rents ...
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US Economic Inequality and What We Can Do About It

T Masterson… - Solidarity Economy: Building …, 2010 - books.google.com
US economic inequality is a hot topic these days. This is due in no small part to what has
been happening to it recently. Despite a period of economic growth in the 1990s longer than
any previously recorded, most people in the US today are not much better off ...

[PDF] An Evolutionary Approach to Institutional Transitions

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S Naidu - 2005 - tuvalu.santafe.edu
There is a recent, expanding consensus that institutions are a key independent explanation
for many of the central questions in economics. This rising intellectual trend in economics
has been marked by a belief that the growth and distribution of income are intimately ...
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[PDF] Labor Mobility and Economic Development in the Post-Bellum US South.

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S Naidu - 2008 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract Across the New World, the abolition of slavery was followed by a battery of laws
restricting the labor market mobility of the newly emancipated. This paper models and
estimates the impact of labor mobility restricting laws on African-Americans in the post- ...
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Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

S Naidu - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011 - socionet.ru
We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially
nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups. Stock returns
of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The ...
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