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“Hjort makes every effort to drive home this particular point: workers are willing to hurt their own individual pay in order to lower the pay of someone in another ethnic group…. ‘Workers are willing to accept lower own pay to lower the pay of non-coethnic co-workers.’” Pg. 80 [In reference to Kenyan ethnic conflict between tribes in the flower industry]

immigrants import their economic destiny, to a large extent, from their ancestral homelands

history of peoples matters more than history of places

relationship between strong family values and political attitudes is about half the size of the relationship between education and those same political attitudes. To speak a bit informally, a sizable rise in a typical person’s education tends to turn that person against regulation by about 10 percentage points