This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict arising between “peripheral” minority groups and a dominant “center”. We propose an index of linguistic conflict that (i) encompasses both diversity and polarization, and (ii) accounts for the distance between lanuguages. Our results suggest that linguistic diversity is a bette...

In this paper, upper bounds on the minimum Euclidean weights of Type I codes over Z6 , and self-dual codes over Z8 and Z10 , are derived for modest lengths. The notion of extremality for Euclidean weights is also introduced. We construct new extremal self-dual codes over these rings. Most of these codes are obtained via the double circulant and quasitwisted constructions. New extremal odd unimo...

microprocessor and cache subsystem F. Busaba M. A. Blake B. Curran M. Fee C. Jacobi P.-K. Mak B. R. Prasky C. R. Walters The IBM zEnterpriseA 196 (z196) system, announced in the second quarter of 2010, is the latest generation of the IBM System zA mainframe. The system is designed with a new microprocessor and memory subsystems, which distinguishes it from its z10A predecessor. The system has u...

We study the effect that the possibility of investing in cultural education has on the voluntary contributions to a cultural good. This is done in a two-stage public-good experiment. We also provide treatments with different context in order to control for a possible framing effect. Our results show the absence of an effect of cultural education on the contributions to the cultural good and a s...

Im Vergleich zu physischen Tastaturen mangelt es den virtuellen Tastaturen an haptischem Feedback und der Möglichkeit, die Tasten auch „blind“ zu bedienen. Diese Studie vergleicht die Eingabegeschwindigkeit, Fehlerrate und wahrgenommene Usability von Touchund Tasten-QWERTZ-Tastatur für die Texteingabe am Smartphone. Als Evaluationsgegenstände dienen die Smartphones BlackBerry Z10 und BlackBerry...

Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates for a new concept to measure the ethnic identi...

This paper discusses different mechanisms of subsidy allocation invoked by operation of law. We compare the allocation of subsidies via committees to the allocation of subsidies through the reference principle, which binds public support to performance at the box office. The analysis is embedded in a broadly disposed regression analysis of the determinants of the performance of German movies in...

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings to capture her direct family exp...

Anthropologists have documented substantial and persistent differences in food preferences across social groups. My paper asks whether such food cultures can constrain caloric intake? I first document that inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their neighbors. Second, I show that migrants bring their origin-state food preferences with...