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-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
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We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …
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previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …
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We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational choice model of release whereby a parole board must balance parolees' risk of violation with the cost of not releasing prisoners who may not violate their parole. A color-blind...
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We consider the properties of perfectly discriminating contests in which players' abilities are stochastic, but become common knowledge before efforts are expended. Players whose expected ability is lower than that of their rivals may still earn a positive expected payoff from participating in...
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workers with the same (observed) human capital but different appearance (race): unobserved productivity (skill), search …
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crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences … are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …
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Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous move component … contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each …
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countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …
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